Biography
Bridges, Elhanon Winchester b. May 12, 1912, Blytheville, Arkansas; Single; Driver and Seaman; YCL 1937; (NOK PO Box 14, Oceaono, California); Arrived in Spain via Salinas on July 11, 1937; Served in the XV BDE, Lincoln-Washington BN, Company 3; Rank Teniente; WIA Retreats March 10, 1938; WWII Armed forces; d. November 9, 1972, San Francisco, California, buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Coloma, San Mateo County, California.Source: Cadre; Figueres List; Inventory North Americans; XV BDE; BN 58 Retreats; Find-a-Grave#87572181. Code A
Photographs: Elhanon Winchester Bridges, Company 3, Lincoln-Washington Battalion, November 1937. The 15th International Brigade Photographic Unit Photograph Collection ; ALBA Photo 11; ALBA Photo number 11-0899. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries. and below from Seaman’s Protective Certificate, Ancestry L-W Tree.