Place of birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Year of birth: 5th January 1916
Date of arrival: 11th February 1937
Date of departure: 5th May 1937
Date of death: 1st August 1971 - Luton, Bedfordshire, England
Comments: Address given as; Father, 24, Northbrook Street, Chapel Allerton, Leeds. (Residing here in 1939). Left Madrigueras for Jarama on 15 February 1937. Medical commission on 3rd March 1937 diagnosed a hernia but fit for service. Imprisoned in Barcelona and left Spain on a Swedish ship. Deserted.
Though originally believed killed, actually survived to fight in the Second World War, in the Pioneer Corps.
Source: IBA Box D-7 File A/2, RGASPI 545/3/696/32 & 545/6/40/103 & 545/6/91/88. NA KV5/119/DSCF2676.
The Pioneer, October 2012 p36-40.
