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Leonard "Len"
Crome
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Place of birth: Dvinsk, Latvia
Year of birth: 14th April 1909
Political organisation: None
Occupation: Doctor
Date of arrival: 19th January 1937
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Date of departure: October 1938
Date of death: 9th May 2001- Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, England
Where killed:
Comments: Served with Scottish Ambulance Unit before transferring to IBs becoming the Senior ranking British volunteer in Spain: O/C of medical services with 35th Division. Repatriated. Awarded the Military Cross in WW2.
Source: IBA Box C File 1/2a RGASPI 545/6/53/43 & 545/6/120/59-63. Hampstead News - 30 November 1944 P5. Norwood News - 26 November 1954 P4. https://richardbaxell.info/len-crome/ "Salud! British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service". by Linda Palfreeman. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw56516/The-International-Brigade-Association-Committee
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