Place of birth: Hillhead, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Year of birth: 2nd May 1913
Political organisation: CP '34
Occupation: Surgical instrument maker/mechanic.
Date of arrival: 6th December 1936
Date of departure: 12th April 1938
Date of death: Apr 1982 - Enfield, Greater London, England
Comments: Addresses given as 1, Dougalston Avenue, MIlngavie, & 7, Dean Street, both Glasgow. Member of No. 1 Company, 14th IB at Cordoba, where he was wounded. After 3 months in hospital joined 20th Btln of 86th Brigade at Cordoba, where he was wounded once again. Suffered from perforated eardrums, but initially refused to be repatriated. "Good comrade".
According to SB he founded a Trotskyist group in Belfast in 1939, and in 1943 was a "prominent member of the RCP" in the city.
Source: IBA Box D-7 Files A/1 & A/2, RGASPI 545/2/114/155 & 545/6/39/66 & 545/6/91/74 & 545/6/93/4 & 545/6/102/15-21. NA KV5/117/DSCF2318-19.
