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Windsor Walter
Walter Windsor Windsor was a Communist-Labour activist in North East Bethnal Green in the early 1920s at a time when the borough was governed by a Labour-Communist alliance. Walter Windsor was born in Hunlett St in […]
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Winnington Alan
Alan Winnington Born in London in 1910, he was a bright child who was able to win a scholarship to Chigwell school. He was won to the Communist Party after a chance meeting with Harry […]
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Wintringham Tom
Tom Wintringham Wintringham was born in Grimsby in 1898. He abandoned his studies at Balliol College, Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. He served on the Western Front and […]
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Witham Margaret
Margaret Witham A life long communist, Margaret worked in the public sector for many years and was at one time a member of the executive of the Civil and Public Services Association (later merged into […]
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Woodis Jack
Jack Woddis Woddis was born in Barnet on November 7th 1914 as Hillel Chayim (sometimes rendered as `Chayin’) Keith Woddis to Polish emigre parents who had left their native land at a time when the part they […]
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Woodis Margaret
Margaret Woodis Born 7th March 1926, she first became an active member of the Communist Party whilst associated with London's Unity Theatre after the war. Marriage to Jack Woodis took her to Vienna, where he […]
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Woods Charlie
Charlie Woods Charlie Woods, a veteran Communist Party member and mining union activist in the North East of England, was born in 1900 in County Durham. He would later move north of the Tyne to […]
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Woolf Barnet
Barnet Woolf Barnet Woolf was an undergraduate at Cambridge University when the British Communist Party was established. He was a founding member along with his close friend and contemporary at Cambridge, Ivor Montagu (see separate […]
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Woolley Ernie
Ernie Woolley Ernest or ‘Ernie’ Woolley was born in Lancashire and was a member of the Engineering Union. He was a member of the Openshaw Branch of the British Socialist Party when the Communist Party […]
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Wynne Bert
Bert Wynne Herbert (Bert) William Wynn was born in 1902 and left school at the age of 13 to work in the pits at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. He became a prominent activist in the 1926 General […]