Mate Depope

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
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