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Gibbons Danny
Danny Gibbons Danny Gibbons, born in 1901, was a political commissar for the British Battalion in Spain. One of four brothers, all of whom hailed from Renton in Dunbartonshire, which returned two Communist councillors […]
Month: August 2011
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Craig Iris
Iris Craig Iris Craig (her married name) worked in setting up the Young Communist League group at King’s College, London in the 1930s. She died in 1994.
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Connolly Don & Doris
Don and Doris Connolly Doris Connolly was born in Great Yarmouth in 1924, whilst her husband Don, was born in Kent two years later. Both were community stalwarts on the New Parks estate in Leicester […]
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Colman Jud
Jud Colman Jud (Julius) Colman of 3, Lytton Ave, Cheetham, was a 20-year-old member of the Young Communist League when he and two friends from Manchester travelled to Paris in an attempt to reach Spain […]
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Warman Lorna
Lorna Warman Lorna was born in 1917 and was a life-long Communist. She was wife to both George T Bridges and then Bill Warman, both leading Communists in their day (see separate entries for […]
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Beney Fred
Fred Beney Born in 1922, Fred joined the staff of Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) in 1952 as a collector/ canvasser in his native London, having been active in the South London […]
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Westacott Kath
Kath Westacott The daughter of a Welsh miner and a suffragette mother, she became active in the student movement when at Manchester University. It was at this point she joined the Communist Party, whilst […]
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Coates Betty
Betty Coates Born in Romford, Essex on March 12th 1926, as Betty Smith. Her childhood was indelibly marked by her mother’s death from breast cancer in 1937, when Betty was just eleven years old. She […]