Joseph Gibbons

Marital status: 
Single
Ethnicity/Nationality: 
English
Profession: 
steel worker
Hometown(s): 
Chicago, Illinois
Political affiliation: 
Communist Party of Canada 1930
Approximate date arrived in Spain: 
1937-05-1 sailed on the Britannic
1937-01-02 arrived
Unit: 
Lincoln Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, General Staff, Battalion Secretary for the Communist Party: Second General 60
Final status: 

Cited for bravery at Fuentes de Ebro; Returned to New York 10 October 1938 aboard the Normandie; Served in WWII

Other: 
Joseph's brothers, Danny and Tommy Gibbons, went to Spain from the US or the UK and fought in the British Battalion
Sources: 
Cadre; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 549, ll. 43-47; Canadian; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry in L-W; Ross collection VALB Memorial Tribute, December 6, 1970; Bill Alexander, "Danny Gibbons, Film and Television Technician, May 1980."
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