Alternate name(s):
Matt Dipope
Date of birth:
Thursday, 5 July 1906
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Croatian
Profession:
miner; worker in the paper industry
Hometown(s):
Connaught, Ontario; Noranda, Quebec; Skrbcici, Primorje-Gorski, Croatia
Date of immigration to Canada:
Friday, 7 September 1928
Education:
Started school at 15
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1933
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-18
Unit:
Petko Miletic anti-tank battery
Final status:
WIA; Survived; Returned to Canda 3 February 1939; Eventually returned to Yugoslavia
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 47, ll. 20, Letter from Helge Meyer to Kerr, July 27, 1937 listing Canadians in the Palafox BN and the 6th Anti-Tank Battery; Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 546, ll. 41 (ver gen can); Kraljic; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Hoff
