Place of birth: Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Year of birth: 27th June 1896
Political organisation: CP & NALGO '26 & LP '21
Occupation: Mental Hospital Orderly
Date of arrival: 28th December 1936
Date of departure: July 1937
Date of death: 19th September 1939 - Truro, Cornwall, England
Comments: Address given as the Coldeast Colony (mental asylum) at Sarisbury, near Southampton, where he was a hospital orderly. Member of NALGO. Broke ankle at Madrigueras training camp in January 1937. Repatriation agreed in June 1937 on grounds of age and demoralisation. Arrived back in UK on 13 July 1937. Collapsed and died minutes after enlisting in the British Army to fight in WW2.
Buried in Blackburn Cemetery Sec. C. R.C. Grave 1016.
Source: IBA Box D-7 File A/2, RGASPI 545/2/112/131 & 545/6/53/9,12 & 545/6/40/99 & 545/6/91/56.
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser - 21 September 1939 p5.
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser - 28 September 1939 p5.
"Hampshire Heroes: Volunteers Fighters in the SCW" by Alan Lloyd p53-54.
