Place of birth: Fulham, London, England
Year of birth: 25th February 1916
Political organisation: YCL & CP '37
Occupation: Laboratory technician
Date of arrival: 11th March 1937
Date of departure: 7th February 1939
Date of death: 19th May 1998 - Gravesend, Kent, England
Comments: Addresses given as; 7, Radipole Road, Fulham, London & 4, Culcroft, Hartley, Dartford, Kent. Served as a stretcher-bearer with 57th Battalion, Popular Army and then M-G Company BB, 15th IB. Captured at Calaceite 31 March 1937. POW April 1938 to February 1939 at San Pedro de Cardeña. Helped produce the 'San Pedro Daily News' whilst imprisoned.
Source: IBA Box D-7 File A/1 & A/6, RGASPI 545/6/91/168 & 545/6/98/9 & 545/6/99/23 & 545/6/174/21-22a. NA KV5/127/DSCF2247-48.
Daily News (London) - 7 February 1939 p13.
Reading Evening Post - 17 July 1986 p10.
"We Cannot Park on Both Sides - Reading Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39" by Mike Cooper & Ray Parkes.
