Alternate name(s):
Alexander; Olex; Olesa; Oleksa
Melnyczenko; Molnychenko
Date of birth:
Monday, 7 March 1904
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Ukrainian
Profession:
dishwasher; trade organizer; teacher; shoe shop clerk
Hometown(s):
Toronto, Ontario; Welesnychia, Poland
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1927
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1930
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-11 left Toronto, on Ciudad de Barcelona
Unit:
13 Dombrowski Brigade; Taras Shevchenko Company: Political Commissar; Palafox Battalion; Sergeant; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Company 3, Section 1 (later Company 2)
Final status:
WIA on 30 July 1938: hit in left left; Hospitalized; Sick with Typhoid; Survived; Returned to Canada on 3 February 1939 on the Duchess of Richmond; Died in 1973
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 560, ll. 6; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 3, Delo 511. ll. 28; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 1549, ll. 42-44; NAC, M-P Collection, Cecil-Smith, V. 1, F. 16, Memoirs and Accounts of Service in Spain, Melnychanko, Alexander, 4 pages, no date; Liversedge; Momryk; Petrou, Ancestry
