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Joseph 'Jock'
Cunningham
Other name: Wallace
Place of birth: Glasgow
Year of birth: 20th December 1902
Political organisation: CP '31 & MFGB
Occupation: Miner
Date of arrival: 19th October 1936
Brigade ID: 488
Date of departure: 30th August 1937
Date of death: 22nd February 1969 - Mearnskirk General Hospital, Renfrewshire
Where killed:
Comments: Address given as; 77b, Whifflet Street, Coatbridge. Joined Machine-Gun Company of Commune de Paris Battalion, 11th IB in November 1936. Member of No. 1 Company, 14th IB at Lopera. Briefly returned to UK for home leave in August 1937. Wounded at Jarama and in hospital from March 15 1937 until May 1937.
Source: IBA Box 21 File A/1, RGASPI 545/6/40/102 & 545/6/91/75 & 545/6/93/1 & 545/6/121/44-50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Cunningham https://spartacus-educational.com/SPcunningham.htm
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