Biography
Drummond, Dave b. May 10, 1905, Seattle, Washington; Single; Seaman; CP 1932; Received Passport# 237012; Domicile 25 South Street, NYC; To Spain from the Soviet Union where he was attending the Lenin School 1935-1937; Arrived in Spain on May 13, 1937; Served with the Artillery, 11th Regiment, 2nd Group, 14th Battery (John Brown Battery), 155mm Guns, Company Commissar; XV BDE, Lincoln-Washington BN, Machine Gun Co., Commissar appointed October 18, 1937 by Keller; Rank Soldado; Served at Aragon, Teruel, and Ebro; Returned to the US on September 21, 1938 aboard the Ile de France; WWII US Army; d. December 31, 1978.
Source: XV BDE; Pay; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 3, Delo 455, ll. 89-90; Opis 6, Delo 883, ll. 32-38; L-W Tree Ancestry. Code A
Photograph: David “Red” Drummond, Lincoln-Washington, September 1938. The 15th International Brigade Photographic Unit Photograph Collection; ALBA Photo 11; ALBA Photo number 11-0061. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.
Source: XV BDE; Pay; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 3, Delo 455, ll. 89-90; Opis 6, Delo 883, ll. 32-38; L-W Tree Ancestry. Code A
Photograph: David “Red” Drummond, Lincoln-Washington, September 1938. The 15th International Brigade Photographic Unit Photograph Collection; ALBA Photo 11; ALBA Photo number 11-0061. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.