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Edwards Eric W
Eric W Edwards Born on 23 April 1944 in Croydon to Communist parents, Eric was a longstanding member of the British Communist Party in both Surrey and the South Midlands districts, until he was expelled […]
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Elliott Lon
Lon Elliott Born in 1911, Elliott married Kathleen and they both managed the McLaren’s Books in Cambridge, as a Communist-run bookshop for the wider left. Lon went to Spain to serve with the International Brigade. Whilst […]
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Evans Chris
Chris Evans Born Christopher Evans around 1912, Chris Evans became a miner employed at the Seven Sisters Colliery and was an active Communist trades unionist for much of his life. In his younger days, […]
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Evans Jack
Jack Evans Born in 1920, Jack Evans left his studies at Bristol University in 1939 to fight as a commando in the Second World War. Having returned to his studies after the war, he […]
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Elliott Lon
Lon Elliott Born in 1911, he married Kathleen and they both managed the McLarens Books in Cambridge, a kind of Communist run Left bookshop. Lon went to Spain to serve with the International Brigade. Whilst […]
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Elias Gertrude
A brief biography of Gertrude Elias by Graham Stevenson: info@grahamstevenson.me.uk Gertrude was born on November 5th 1913 in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her father was a left-wing Jewish lawyer who took on the […]
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Emery Harry
Harry Emery A foundation member of the Coventry Communist Party, he moved to Birmingham in 1922 and became secretary of the branch there. Emery was arrested that very year for the part he played in […]
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Evans George Ewart
George Ewart Evans Born on 1st April 1909 in Abercynon, a coal-mining village north of Cardiff, Evans was one of a family of eleven to Welsh-speaking parents, His father was William Evans and mother, Janet, […]
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Egelnick Ann (McPherson)
Ann [McPherson] Egelnick Born on 22nd June 1945, Ann was brought up in north London, the single child of Max and Sadie Egelnick (see separate entry for Max). Although she did well at Copthall county […]
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Edwards Bert
Bert Edwards Born in 1896, Bert Edwards was beaten up during a transport workers' demonstration in Liverpool in 1911. So vicious were the police that the day became known as Bloody Sunday. Thus, a proud boast of […]