Place of birth: Auckland, New Zealand
Year of birth: 19th September 1909
Political organisation: CP '34
Occupation: Bookshop owner
Date of arrival: October 1936
Date of death: 10th November 1936
Where killed: Casa del Campo
Comments: Left NZ for St John's College, Cambridge. Owned a left wing bookshop in Cambridge. 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
"Kiwi Companeros; New Zealand and the SCW" Edited by mark Deby p35-42.
Daily Herald - 8 December 1936 p2
