Biography
k-Alejo Fuentes, Florentino (Alejo, Florention Fuentes; Ortiz, Florentino; Ortiz, Alejo); Cuban; Domicile NYC, USA; Arrived in Figueres via Massanet on July 17, 1937; Served with the XV BDE, Lincoln-Washington BN, Co. 3 (Spanish), Commissar; Sailed aboard the Reina del Pacifico; Arrived in September 1937; Killed in action October 13, 1937, Fuentes de Ebro.Sources: Americans and Canadians Killed in Spain Complete list to November 15, 1937; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 2, Delo 303, ll. 25; Opis 6, Delo 35, ll. 54; Opis 6, Delo 585, ll. 141; Opis 6, Delo 586, ll. 36-37; Relación de los Cubanos muertos en la Guerra de liberación e Independencia de España, Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Fondo Primer Partindo Comunista de Cuba, Guerra Civil; 1/2:1/1.10/45 [Marked as 75-81]; Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Registro General, 26.40.6/87, No photograph; Alfonso Bello and Pérez Díaz; Vera Jimenéz; Baumann; SIDBRINT.
Photographs: Officers of Lincoln-Washington Company 3, Com. Sancha [?], Murielo [?], and Florentino Alejo Ortiz [?], Political Commissar, Almuchel October 1937. The 15th International Brigade Photographic Unit Photograph Collection; ALBA Photo 11; ALBA Photo number 11-0734. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.
