Date of birth:
Saturday, 3 October 1914
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Canadian; Ukrainian
Profession:
painter
Hometown(s):
Regina, Saskatchewan
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1937
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-10-08 sailed
1937-10-21 arrived
Final status:
MIA 3 April 1938 at Gandesa; Reportedly committed suicide rather than be captured; In an interview with the Regina Leader-Post in 1984, Marchuk's fellow Mac Pap and friend from Regina, Bill Beeching, said that Marchuk was captured and executed by the Nationalists after he disabled a tank that was inflicting Republican casualties with a bomb at close quarters
Sources:
Peter Edwards, "Recalling the Spanish Civil War," Leader-Post, 13 October 1984; Figueres List; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 558, ll. 51 (ver ar gen can); Momryk; Petrou
