Alternate name(s):
Urban; Urbane; Hanbow; Hansbut
Date of birth:
Saturday, 25 January 1902
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Belgian
Hometown(s):
Winnipeg, Manitoba; Swift Current, Saskatchewan; Antwerp, Belgium
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1926
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1935
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-06-01
Unit:
British Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion
Final status:
POW; Held in San Pedro de Cardenas prison; Exchanged 5 April 1939; Survived; Reported to have gone to Belgium; Is listed as sailing to Canada on 28 April 1939 aboard the Duchess of Bedford; Fought with the Canadian Army in Italy in 1943 as a Private; Moved to Britain in 1951, likely working for the University of London; Died 13 December 1974 in Edmonton, Alberta
Other:
He wrote a testimony about his experience as a prisoner of war at San Pedro de Cardeña.
Sources:
Geiser; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; POW Letters Thomas Fisher Library; Hoff
