Alternate name(s):
Rodney; Ronald; Liversidge
Date of birth:
Monday, 4 December 1899
Marital status:
married Lavinia Boucher
remarried Mildred Dougan
Children:
1
Ethnicity/Nationality:
English
Profession:
Communist Party of Canada organizer; miner
Hometown(s):
Vancouver, British Columbia; Bradford, England
Education:
elementary school, 6 years; grammar school, 1 year
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920; Communist Party of Canada, 1933; not Communist Party of Spain
Involvement in On-to-Ottawa Trek:
Participated in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
Prior military experience:
British Army during World War I, 1916-19
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-30
Unit:
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Co. 3 later Co. 1; Section commander until October 20, 1937; Artillery: 35 battery; Anglo-American anti-tank unit which is attached to Dimitrovs
Final status:
Travelled on the Ciudad de Barcelona; Hospitalized for illness; Survived; Returned to Canada February 11, 1939; d. 1974
Other:
Survived the sinking of the City of Barcelona on way to Spain; Liversedge wrote "Mac-Pap: Memoir of a Canadian in the Spanish Civil War" during the 1960s. It was published in 2013; Liversedge also wrote "Recollections of the On-to-Ottawa Trek," published by MacMillan in 1974
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 3, Delo 511, ll. 96; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 557, ll. 92-97; Petrou; Ancestry
