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McFadden, Berit
Berit McFadden, who originally came from Schorndorf in southern Germany (pictured), died on 18 April 1997, aged 41, from a rare form of lung cancer. This was 6 weeks after diagnosis and 11 weeks after […]
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Mudie Robin
Robin Mudie He was known as Robin, but born Robert David Mudie on May 17, 1922 to Angelici (nee Falcioni) and Robert Wright Mudie, a jute mill manager in Bengal. Robin's aunt also lived in […]
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McCourt Barney
Bernard "Barney" McCourt McCourt was a leading Communist from Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was a parliamentary candidate in the 1931 general election for Bothwell. Every penny had to be raised locally. The Daily Worker reported […]
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Maskey Bert
Bert Maskey (Barnett Masansky) – a biography by his grandson David Mason The photograph is a Photoshop restoration from Barnett’s Alien’s Identity Book. To go back to his beginning, Bert Maskey was born ‘Barnett Masansky’ in […]
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Morton Gary
Gary Morton One of two sons of Ken, an engineer, and Hilda (née Bracken), a secretary, Gary attended University College school in Hampstead, north London, where he developed a lifelong passion for politics. He immersed […]
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Meredith Kit
Kit Meredith Christopher (Chris or Kit) Meredith was probably born in 1900 and worked as an administrative worker and a university lecturer. He served in the 1st Air Formation Signals in Italy from 1944-1946; […]
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Moore Bernard
Bernard Moore Born in 1907, Bernard was a worker and an intellectual, in the best tradition of his class. He was a warm, vigorous man, with considerable talent as a writer and a great sense […]
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McColgan Doro
Dorothea McColgan (also known as Lerner and Flatto) Born in Dresden, Germany, into a Jewish family that emigrated to Britain when she was two years old, Doro Flatto grew up in north London, attending […]
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Mann Charlie
Charlie Mann Charles Benjamin Mann (or Charley as his father usually wrote it) was born on 11th July 1905, in Australia, a son of Tom Mann (see separate entry), the famous trade union leader and […]
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Middleton Olga
Olga Middleton Born in 1906, Olga Middleton joined the Party in 1936 and was an activist in the tailoring union, the NUTGW. In the post-1945 era, Olga Middleton was a Branch Secretary of the Finsbury […]