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Goodman Dave
left: Dave Goodman (centre) in Spain Dave Goodman Born February 25th 1915, Goodman spent his early years in Middlesborough, where his Jewish Russian parents had settled. He joined the YCL in 1930 and later volunteered […]
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Moffat Abe, Alex and Dave
Abe, Alex and Dave Moffat (Note: unusually, the entries for these brothers are combined, for reasons that will be evident upon reading the text! Although the entry is somewhat skewed towards Abe, the more […]
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Solomans Dave
Dave Solomons Dave Solomons was a telecommunications electrical engineering inspector and had joined the Electricians Trade Union around 1942. After acting as secretary of the union’s Radio No. 4 branch from 1946 to 1948, […]
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Springhall Dave
Dave (Douglas Frank) Springhall Springhall was a founder member of the Communist Party who supposedly disgraced the Party by falling to the temptation of engaging in a too conspiratorial a form of activity and damaging […]
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Bowman Dave
Dave Bowman Born on March 6th 1913, railway family, Dave Bowman first worked in a biscuit factory and the Co-op bakery. He became an engineer cleaner at Tay Bridge depot in 1930, only to lose his […]