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Kaye Solly
Solly (Solomon) Kaye Kaye was born October 8th 1913, the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. His father died when he was five years old, leaving his mother to cope with poverty through charity. At 14, […]
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Keable Gladys
Gladys Keable Born in late 1909, Gladys Mary Main was fluent in Esperanto having begun to learn it when she was only 13 years old. A talented artist, she attended art school in her youth […]
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Keegan William
William Keegan A National Unemployed Workers Movement activist, Keegan was an unemployed Communist miner from Baillieston, North Lanarkshire. He volunteered to join the International Brigade. He had already been active in raising funds for Spain […]
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Keith Molly
Molly Keith Molly Keith worked in the printing trade in the 1930s and married a printer. During the Second World War, she was a `clippie� (conductress) on the buses in London. For two years she […]
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Kelly-Bootle Stan
Stan Kelly-Bootle Liverpool-born Stan Kelly-Bootle joined the Young Communist League (YCL) in Liverpool circa 1943, becoming a Party member at Cambridge University around 1950. He was, as he puts it himself, `exposed to computing, on […]
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Kenton Lou
Lou Kenton Lou Kenton, the son of Jewish immigrants, was born in Stepney in 1908. He was the first of nine children to be born in Britain, who shared a three-room flat in Stepney, east […]
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Kerrigan Peter (docker and actor)
Peter Kerrigan (docker and actor) This Peter Kerrigan is not to be confused with his namesake, more famous in Communist Party circles, who was the Party’s Industrial Organiser. This Peter Kerrigan was born in 1916 […]
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Kerrigan Peter
Peter Kerrigan Peter Kerrigan (pictured left in 1975) was born 26th June 1899 in Hutchestown, Glasgow and educated at Hayfield School, Gorbals, and Elmvale School, Springburn. Apprenticed on the railways, until he joined the […]
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Kerrigan Rose
Rose Kerrigan Rose Klasko was born in February 1903 in Dublin to immigrant parents from Siberia and Lithuania. Her family moved to Glasgow, where her father was a tailor. Rose became involved even as a […]
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Kessel Lipmann (`Lippy)
Lipmann (`Lippy) Kessel A member of the Communist Party from the 1938, he remained a member until his death. Kessel joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a surgeon during the Second World War and […]