Place of birth: Mile End, London
Year of birth: 21st July 1916
Political organisation: CP '36 & LP '35
Occupation: Transport worker
Date of arrival: 16th August 1937
Date of departure: 7th December 1938
Date of death: 23rd December 1993 • Hendon, Greater London
Comments: Addresses given as; Parents, 79, Lauriston Road, London (Residing here in 1939), & Sam Russell, Foreign Editor, Daily Worker, London. Brother of Sam Lesser. Went to OTS at Pozzo Rubio, where he met Tom Wintringham. Trained at Tarazona in machine gunnery and sniping.
Trained as a lieutenant, granted rank of sergeant at front, but never actually activated. Wounded March 1938.
Source: IBA Box D-7 Files A/1 & A/2, RGASPI 545/6/51/53 & 545/6/91/124 & 545/6/162/72-90 & 545/6/933/27-28. & FO371/22654
