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Evans Edgar
Edgar Evans Born in 1900, Evans was an ironmonger with his own shop in Bedlinog, South Wales, in the north-east corner of Mid Glamorgan. Hailing from Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Evans’ father was victimised due to […]
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Elsbury Sam
Sam Elsbury Elsbury is noted in Communist history as being the London organiser of the National Union of Textile and Garment Workers (NUTGW) who led a break-away “red” union for a short while. […]
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Eggar Dougal
Dougal Eggar Born Douglas Coplaston (though this is variously rendered in the records) Eggar on 29 Dec 1900, probably at Eton College like some or all of his four siblings. Their father, William Douglas Eggar MA, the […]
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Edwards Frank
Frank Edwards Frank Edwards was born in 1907 to Belfast Catholic parents who relocated to Waterford. His father served, and died, in the British Army during the First World War. His elder brother, Jack […]
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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 […]
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Ellis Bert
Bert Ellis Ellis was the Communist Party’s candidate in the 1950 local elections for Child’s Hill ward on what was then Hendon council. This is now the southern-most ward of the London borough of […]
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Eaton Alex
Alex Eaton Alex Eaton and his brother Paddy joined the Bradford Young Communist League and attended the 15th Congress of the YCL in Londonin 1948: "our attendance at Congress was the first real contact […]
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Ellis Ernie
Ernie Ellis Ernie Ellis was a 19 year old Young Communist League (YCL) member from Walthamstow (London) who died during the Second World War, serving as a part-time ARP Warden. It was said that he took […]
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Evans Glyn
Glyn Evans Evans was a Communist Party member and miner who worked for the Labour Research Department in the 1920s. It is believed that he came from Garnant, South Wales. He accompanied miner’s leader […]
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Elliott Bob Cllr
Cllr Bob Elliott Robert S. Elliot was an unemployed miner and prominent member of the National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM). Along with Charlie Woods (see separate entry), he marched in the Tyneside contingent of the […]