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Geddes Alec & Effie Jones (nee Geddes)
Alec and Effie Geddes (Jones) Born in 1888 in Wick, where he worked as a fish smoker from a young age, Alexander (sometimes Alec, or Alex) Geddes was an ASE (AEU) activist in Greenock’s Workers […]
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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 […]
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Griffin Arthur
Arthur Griffin Griffin lived in Rockland Street, Belfast, and was a member of the Revolutionary Workers’ Groups in Ireland in the early 1930s. These were formed to prepare the ground for the launching of […]
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George Alys
Alys George (Kulsoom Faiz) Alys George was born on September 22nd 1914. She joined the British Communist Party at the age of 16. By the mid-1930s, she found herself working with Indian Communists and […]
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Grove David
David Grove David was born in Liverpool in 1923. He grew up in a comfortable middle class suburb during the Great Depression, and attended the local state grammar school (Quarry Bank), where John Lennon […]
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Gibbons Charlie
Charlie Gibbons Born Charles Leonard Gibbons on November 23rd 1888, he was a protégé of Noah Ablett, co-author of `The Miners’ Next Step’. Gibbons was a member of the Unofficial Reform Committee and the […]
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Giles Winifred
Winifred Giles Giles was a Communist journalist and the editor of the Women's Page in the Sunday Worker. Giles frequently used the political pen name of Florence Parker. She died very suddenly […]
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Garland Paul
Paul Garland Garland was an active member of the Young Communist League in Bristol during the 1950s and early 1960s. He was National Chairman of the YCL in 1961 and Secretary of the […]
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Garber Joe
Joe Garber Joe Garber Joe Garber was born in Bethnal Green on 19th September 1911, where he lived at 7 Dunk St, Whitechapel, and attended JFS School. His family were Jewish immigrants […]
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