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Dean Frances
France Dean Being born in 1917, she joined the Labour League of Youth in 1938 but quickly gravitated towards the Young Communist League and then the Communist Party in 1941. Frances Dean was a shop […]
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Dowd Jimmy
Jimmy Dowd Born in 1921 (by his own account), Dowd was demobbed early in the war and became heavily politicised when he made engine parts for aeroplanes in the war at Ford’s Barton Bridge, Manchester, […]
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Duncan Bill
Bill Duncan Born around 1903, Duncan joined the Communist Party in 1922 in Scotland and become a full-time worker for the Young Communist League. He was sent by the Party to the International Lenin School […]
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Dare Eddie
Eddie Dare Born Edwin Hornsby Dare on 8th August 1919, he was the eldest of seven siblings. Suffering from polio as a child, Eddie also experienced the tragedy of a brother’s suicide. Following a Devonshire […]
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Devine Frieda
Frieda Devine Frieda Maria Truhar was born on August 4th 1911 in Pittsburgh to a Croatian immigrant couple of Catholic background who had become firm socialists, her father being a steel worker. She […]
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Darley Peggy
Born Peggy McBride in Belfast, she came from a large working-class family. At Gallaher’s cigarette factory, she became a shop steward and eventually joined the Communist Party of Ireland, where she met Eddie Darley, a […]
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Darnton Christian
Christian Darnton Christian Philip Christian Darnton was born near Leeds on 30th October 1905. The family had been ennobled to a Barony of the Holy Roman Empire in 1715 and were related to two […]
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Douglas J J
J J Douglas Douglas was the Communist Party’s candidate for Morpeth, Northumberland, in November 1932. He was the only candidate in his election address to mention the then new “Means Test” unemployment Benefit. Yet some 600 […]
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Dutson Bill
Bill Dutson William Dutson was born in Clayton, Manchester in 1899; his mother was a tailoress and keen trade unionist, who encouraged her son to read. His father secured a job in Ayrshire, Scotland, then […]