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Henry Osmo Backman
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| Last Name | Backman |
| First/Middle Name | Henry Osmo |
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Biography
k-Backman, Henry Osmo. (Bacman); Finnish American, Single, Draftsman, CP 1933 section committee member, received passport# 376758 om March 20, 1937 which listed his address as 4239 Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 31 years old, Sailed March 31, 1937 aboard the Aquitania, Arrived in Spain on May 8, 1937; Served with the XV BDE, Lincoln BN, Brunete; Lincoln-Washington BN, Machinegun Company, rank Soldado, Teruel, WIA, reported missing in action during the Retreats he drowned while attempting to cross the Ebro river on April 3, 1938.
Source: SACB, Cadre (under Bacman), XV BDE, BN 58 Retreats, Finnish, K. E. Heikkinen, ed., Meidän Poikamme Espanjassa (Our Boys in Spain), Finnish Workers Federation, USA, Inc., 1939, translated by Matti A. Mattson.