Nazar Demianchuck

Alternate name(s): 
Nicholas; Nikolai; Demianchuk; Demainscuk; Demianczuk
Date of birth: 
Saturday, 3 February 1906
Marital status: 
married
Ethnicity/Nationality: 
Ukrainian
Profession: 
lumber worker
Hometown(s): 
Winnipeg, Manitoba; Chornchi, Ukraine
Date of Immigration to Canada: 
1929
Political affiliation: 
Communist Party of Canada
Affiliations to union and social groups: 
Maxim Gorky Club (Russian Labour-Farmers' Club
Approximate date arrived in Spain: 
before 1937-11-01
Unit: 
13 Dombrowski Brigade, 52 Palafax Battalion, Taras Shevchenko Company, Commissar; Jakob Lompik writes in memoir that he was the machine gun company commissar
Final status: 

KIA Fall 1937 near Huesca

Sources: 
List of Canadian Casualties in Spain MG30 E173 Vol.1 File 13; 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. 37 (ver gen amer); Hoar (as Demianschuk); Momryk; Petrou; Hoff
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