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Griffin
MacLaurin
Other name: Campbell
Place of birth: New Zealand
Year of birth: 1910
Political organisation: CP
Occupation: Bookshop owner
Date of arrival: October 1936
Brigade ID:
Date of departure:
Date of death: 9 November 1936
Where killed: Casa del Campo
Comments: Served in No 4 Section of the Machine Gun Company of the Commune de Paris Battalion. 'A Rhodes Scholar asked by Harry Pollitt to offer his expertise with a machine gun' BA p.34. Nicknamed 'Mac'. Killed with Stephen Yates and Robert Symes giving covering fire with a Lewis machine gun. BA p.57
Source: IBA Box 21 File A & BA p.34
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