Alternate name(s):
Motif Bolf; Balf
Date of birth:
Friday, 13 April 1900
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Croatian
Profession:
miner
Hometown(s):
Toronto, Ontario; Delnice, Croatia
Date of immigration to Canada:
Friday, 1 May 1925
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-07 sailed
1937-02-24 arrived
Unit:
Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Artillery for three months on southern front; Transferred to Guards Company, Albacete due to illness; Later with Services bureau at Casa Ibanez
Final status:
Sick; Marked for repatriation to Canada in 1938, as his passport was soon to expire; Survived; Stowed away to Canada in October 1939; Deported to France; Died in Yugoslavia 14 November 1978
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Fond 543, ll. 65; Kraljic; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Hoff
