Place of birth: Ennogera, Queensland, Australia
Year of birth: 10th August 1916
Political organisation: YCL Limehouse '36 & NBLCW
Occupation: Motorcycle Tester
Date of arrival: 11th January 1938
Date of departure: 25th October 1938
Comments: Address given as; 6, Winchester Street, Bethnal Green, London. Wounded by a shell burst and taken prisoner at Gandesa. POW San Pedro de Cardeña. A seaman who had worked in South America for two years. After release he worked his passage back home.
Enlisted in the RAAF in 1941 and spent 14 months in Britain, before returning to Australia.
Source: RGASPI 545/6/90/1 & 545/6/91/146 & 545/6/856/17-18. NA KV5/117/DSCF2280-81.
Daily News (London) - 25 October 1938 p15.
"Australians in the Spanish Civil War" by Amirah Inglis. Inglis also suggests that Alexander was in Spain as early as January 1937, but no evidence has been found to support this.
