Wal Hannington

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British Activist Wal Hannington was born Walter Hannington on 17th June, 1896 in 22 Randolph Street, Kentish Town, London, England, UK and passed away on 17th Nov 1966 Hammersmith, London, England, UK aged 70. He is most remembered for A founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. His zodiac sign is Gemini.

Wal Hannington is a member of the following lists: 1966 deaths, 1896 births and English trade unionists.

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First Name	Wal
Last Name	Hannington
Full Name at Birth	Walter Hannington
Alternative Name	Walter "Wal" Hannington, Wal
Birthday	17th June, 1896
Birthplace	22 Randolph Street, Kentish Town, London, England, UK
Died	17th November, 1966
Place of Death	Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Cause of Death	Heart Attack just after leaving Hammersmith hospital
Build	Average
Hair Color	Brown - Dark
Distinctive Feature	Due to his intense activism and high profile, Hannington was gaoled six times between 1922 and 1932 for offences such as sedition and incitement..., The youngest of four sons and sixth of seven surviving children of Henry William Hannington, foreman bricklayer of Kentish Town..., "Wal Hannington was one of the great, cheerful, and optimistic figures of our movement – a founder of the Communist Party and a great leader of the engineers and of the unemployed. His life was a model of service to his class" John Gollan, General Secretary of the Communist Party (on hearing of his death)..., ‘Wal’ was a self-taught Marxist who gained notoriety for hoisting the red flag over his engineering works on the day war ended, and had led the ‘Slough Soviet’, a notoriously militant government transport depot..., "Communist Wal Hannington, frank proponent of violence, is a hard-muscled, soft-spoken young man who dresses extremely neatly, wears tortoise shell glasses and serves tea to teatime visitors"..., "chubby mechanic named Walter ("Wal") Hannington was so useful to the British Government as a highly-skilled armaments tooler in 1914 that he was exempted from active army duty. It would have saved His Majesty's Government a pack of trouble in the past 20 years if Wal had gone to France and stopped a German bullet"...
Zodiac Sign	Gemini
Sexuality	Straight
Ethnicity	White
Nationality	British
Occupation Text	Trade Unionist, Political Activist, Author and Toolmaker
Occupation	Activist
Claim to Fame	A founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Record Label	The Workers' Weekly, Lawrence and Wishart (publisher), British-Soviet Society (publisher)
Associated Acts	The Communist Party of Great Britain, The National Unemployed Workers' Movement, The British Socialist Party, The Slough Soviet
Pets	Professor Harold Laski, Harry Pollitt

Walter "Wal" Hannington (1896–1966) was a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and National Organiser of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, from its formation in 1921 to its end in 1939, when he became National Organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

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