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Young Amicia
Amicia Young Born in 1914 as Amicia More Melland, she married Enrique Teophilio Bassadone in Southwark in 1942, although the marriage did not last. Amicia joined the Communist Party in 1945. She met Commander Edgar […]
Month: December 2010
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Unsworth Jack
Jack Unsworth Jack Unsworth was one of two sons of staunch Marxist socialist Bill Unsworth, the champion marker-off in the boiler shop at Gorton Tank in Manchester that Harry Pollitt learned his trade in. […]
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Young Edgar
Edgar Young Although he never joined the Communist Party, Young took a strongly pro-Soviet line on a number of historic issues and his life was so thoroughly associated with aspects of the Communist Party’s […]
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Young Stan
Stan Young Stan Young was born in Hanwell, west London, in 1920 into a large family. His father was a carpenter and joiner, and his mother a seamstress. He left school at 14 and worked […]
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Oldrey Brian
Brian Oldrey Born on June 9th 1947, Brian Oldrey began his working life with British Telecom in London. He became involved in trade union activities with the Civil and Public Servants' Association and probably […]
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Jones Jack (Wales)
Jack Jones Not to be confused with his namesake, the leader of the T&G, Jack Jones was briefly a Communist in the Welsh mining valleys and always a chameleon type figure in the political sphere […]
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Johnston Roy Dr
Dr Roy Johnston Roy Johnston was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1929; his father, Joseph Johnston, had been a Protestant "Home Ruler" farmer from the Dunganon area of Tyrone and a member of the Irish […]
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Johnston Archie
Archie Johnston Archie Johnston was a journalist from the mid-30s until the 1950s, who came originally from Aberdeen. When the Spanish Civil War started, he owned a hotel with his wife at Lloret […]
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Frankel Hymie
Hymie Frankel Hyman Frankel was born into a Jewish community in the East End of London; his father was the beadle of a local synagogue. By the age of 18, he […]
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Ewer William
William Ewer William Norman Ewer was born in 1885 and was known mostly as William, or sometimes Norman, and occasionally by the nickname of Trilby. He became a Daily Herald journalist from 1912, and […]