Place of birth: Stepney, London, England
Year of birth: 1st September 1909
Political organisation: YCL
Date of arrival: 25th July 1937
Date of departure: February 1939
Date of death: 17th September 2012 - Ealing, London, England
Comments: Born to Russian emigre parents as Lewis Chaiken/Louis Kerstein. Took part in the Battle of Cable Street. Address given as; 1, Gumairsburg Mansion, High Road, London. In Servicio Sanidad (British Medical Unit). Despatch rider in the medical services and driver at Valdeganga. 'Repatriated'
1939 living in Pilton Place, Old Kent Road, Southwark, London, along with Bill Alexander. YOB given as 1909 in the 1939 registration.
Source: IBA Box D-7 File A/1. RGASPI 545/6/158/79-82. Labour Oral History Project recording in the BL
Morning Star - 3rd October 2012 p16.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lou-kenton-political-activist-who-resisted-the-blackshirts-and-served-in-the-spanish-civil-war-8168096.html
