Peter Sorin Neilson

Peter Neilsen
Alternate name(s): 
Neilsen
Date of birth: 
Sunday, 27 June 1897
Marital status: 
single
Ethnicity/Nationality: 
Danish
Profession: 
logger; labourer
Hometown(s): 
Vancouver, British Columbia; transient
Date of Immigration to Canada: 
1916
Education: 
attended school until age 11
Political affiliation: 
Communist Party of Canada, 1933
Affiliations to union and social groups: 
American Federation of Labour; Industrial Workers of the World; Involved in logging unions; Organizer in logging camps and hard rock mines
Involvement in On-to-Ottawa Trek: 
Participated in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
Prior military experience: 
none
Approximate date arrived in Spain: 
1937-02-20 - sailed via Ile de France
1937-04-29 - arrived
Unit: 
Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; Lieutenant, Officers' Training School
Final status: 
Reported KIA; WIA 16 January 1938 at Teruel; MIA 3 April 1938; Cited for valour; Survived
Sources: 
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 3, Delo 511. ll. 67; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 561, ll. 17, 16; NAC, M-P Collection, Cecil-Smith, V. 1, F. 16, Memoirs and Accounts of Service in Spain, Nielson, Pete, 2 accounts, 4 pages, no date; Liversedge; Momryk; Petrou
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