Alternate name(s):
Savaka
Savikho
Johannes
August
John
Jussi
Nickname:
Frank
Date of birth:
Sunday, 7 December 1890
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish
Profession:
logger
Hometown(s):
Port Arthur, Ontario; Haapajarvi, Finland
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1926 or 1927
Political affiliation:
Not a member of the Communist Party; International Brigades files say he should not be accepted into the party
Unit:
Washington Battalion; Lincoln Washington Battalion, Machine Gun Company
Final status:
Hospitalized; Imprisoned at Castillo de Fels prison; Proposed for expulsion from Republic; Survived; Returned to Canada 3 February 1939 on the Duchess of Richmond
Disciplinary record in Spain:
Did not desert, but was imprisoned at Castillo de Fels; Demoralized and drunk; Sentenced to incarceration for drunkenness for 30 days – extended to a year; Disciplinary Company, jailed at Albacete
Other:
Spoke only Finnish
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 568, ll. 38 (see Finnish); RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 1032, ll. 7-13; Momryk; Petrou; Our Boys in Spain
