Place of birth: Monkseaton, Whitley Bay, Northumberland
Year of birth: 29th August 1909
Political organisation: CP
Date of arrival: 17th February 1937
Date of death: 7th July 1937
Where killed: Villanueva de la Ca�ada
Comments: Went to Oundle School and Kings College Cambridge. Attended the Lenin School and worked in Moscow as a translator. Address given as; Jones, "Eryl Daf", Radyt, Glamorgan. Commander of Anglo-American Company in new mixed 20th Battalion that operated almost as guerrillas, then joined the Washington Battalion. Adopted son of Cardiff and named on the Burry Port Memorial.
Source: IBA Box 21 File A & D-7 File A/2, RGASPI 545/6/40/118 & 545/6/91/96 & 545/6/208/71 & 545/6/1004/1
http://irelandscw.com/ibvol-Monks.htm
"With the Reds in Andalusia" by Joe Monks.
https://ww1.wales/carmarthenshire-memorials/burry-port-spanish-civil-war-memorial/
