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Bernard
McKenna
Other name:
Place of birth: Manchester, Lancashire, England
Year of birth: 11th September 1915
Political organisation: YCL '35
Occupation: Textile designer
Date of arrival: 24th February 1937
Brigade ID: 857
Date of departure: 27th October 1938
Date of death: 31st July 2008 - Manchester, Lancashire, England
Where killed:
Comments: Address given as; Mother, 52, Juniper Street, Manchester. Signaller & infantryman with BB, 15th IB. Spent several months at the base until the August Aragon offensive. POW, captured Calaceite April 1938, held at San Pedro de Cardeña. 'Intelligent and militant working-class type.' WW2 served in the RAF.
Source: IBA Box D-7 Files A/1 & A/2, RGASPI 545/6/40/112 & 545/6/91/98 & 545/6/98/8 & 545/6/170/99-100. NA FO371 & KV5/127/DSCF/2080-81. Daily News (London) - 28 October 1938 p17. Manchester Evening News - 25 April 1983 p7. Manchester Evening News - 14 September 1996 p9. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/aug/14/1 https://grahamstevenson.me.uk/2012/03/13/mckenna-bernard-sp-1469569032/
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