Alternate name(s):
Wladek
Trakala
Trakola
Walter
Wladys
Date of birth:
Saturday, 7 May 1910
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Ukrainian
Profession:
baker
Hometown(s):
Kirkland Lake, Ontario; Tluste, Ukraine
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1927
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1935
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-06-01
Unit:
Slav Artillery Battery: 2 Battery; Most likely with Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; Political commissar; Bartosz Glawacki Battery
Final status:
WIA at Brunete; Survived; Returned to Canada 23 February 1939 on the Duchess of York; Involved with the MacPap Veterans Association
Sources:
NAC, M-P Collection, Dent, V. 5, F. 19, Subject Files,Trakola, Wladek: IB service record, 1937-39; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry
