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The Spanish Civil War and the International Brigades
This archive includes letters from brigade members, biographical material, papers relating to various support organisations in the UK, relating to commemorative activities, and various periodicals. Following the archive list is a list of pamphlets and a list of individual volunteers from the North West of England. Further information can be found in the WCML Bulletin article by Ruth and Eddie Frow
Box 1 International Brigade University degree studies Manchester Memorial Book Sheffield XV Brigade – NOT north-west Four English volunteers	Box 2 Histories – Spanish Civil War Historical Background Spain 1930s Spain – post-war
Box 3 Maurice Levene, Ralph Cantor, Irish & Jewish IBers Manus O'Riordan Lecture, Irish & Jewish Museum, Connolly Socialism, Belgian & Israeli IBers	Box 4 George Brown: Personal/Political Papers, Pre-Spain: Spain: Death, Reports/Tributes: Memorial, Meetings/Appreciations, Wife & Mother: C.I. July 1937 Sam Wild: Biography (B.H Phillips) Biography in part 1908-1975 (Edmund and Ruth Frow) “Plan for Platting” Correspondence
Box 5 Photos, maps, film, tapes Press articles, reports, speeches etc., Posters and publications	Box 6 Foodships for Spain, Medical Aid, Dependants Aid Committee, I.B.A Letters, Appeals, I.B.M.T.
Box 7 Spanish Relief Committee, Aid for Spain Committee, Labour Movement Support, Friends of Spain, CPGB, I.B.A, Anarchist, Trots/POUM ILP, Basque Children	Box 8 Memorials 1937-9, Manchester 1983, London 1985, Merseyside 1985/7, 40th Anniversary 1976, 50th Anniversary 1986, 70th Anniversary 2006, Memorandum S.S. ”Stancroft” 1938
Box 9 Spain at War April- December 1938 Voice of Spain Jan – Feb1938 Weekly Summary April 39 – June 41 The War in Spain-weekly Jan 38-Mar 39 Spain Weekly Review (pro-Franco) Jan 39 – Mar 40 Assorted Bulletins on Spain	Box 10 The Volunteer Lincoln Brigade November 1987 – December 1990 Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion Canada June 1977-May 1983 Volunteer for Liberty - USA June 1937 – October 1938
Box 11 Volunteer for Liberty – IBA (later – Spain Today) Jan 40 - Jun 53 Some issues missing	Box 12 British Youth Peace Assembly Verse, Song, Art
Box 13 Spanish Texts Non-Spanish texts - French/Italian/German	Box 14 - pamphlets Delegations to Spain Italian/German intervention Franco & Catholic Church Catholic support for Republican Spain Symposiums on Spain Assorted pamphlets on Spain
Box 15 - pamphlets Republican Ministers' speeches and statements Madrid I.B. individual Brigaders accounts and photos Breaches of non-intervention

Pamphlets

Author	Title	Subtitle	*Publisher*	Place	*Date*	*Pages*	Ref.
Breaches of Non-Intervention & Press
Vernon Bartlett	I Accuse…		The Friends of Spain	London	1960	8	Sp/15
Various	Report and Findings of Committee of Enquiry	Breaches of International Law relating to Intervention in Spain		London	1969	16	Sp/15
Various	Evidence of recent breaches by Germant and Italy of the non-intervention agreement		P.S. King & Son	London	1975	28	Sp/15
David Lloyd George	Spain and Britain		The Friends of Spain	London	1978	20	Sp/15
	New Order in Valencia	An article from "The Times"	The Friends of Spain	London	1979	12	Sp/15
Various	National Emergency Conference on Spain	Report	The National Conference on Spain	London	1979	32	Sp/15
Charles Duff	Spain: The Moral Touchstone of Europe	a footnote on Mr. Churchill's recent speech	Victor Gollancz ltd.	London	1982	20	Sp/15
	The Financial Relations between the Spanish Government and Great Britain	Three articles from the "Financial News"	The Friends of Spain	London	1983	12	Sp/15
Catholic support for Republican Spain
	Christ or Franco?	An answer to the Collective Letter which the Spanish Episcopate issued to the Bishops of the World.	The Friends of Spain	London	1937	34	Sp/14
	Spain	Catholic and Protestant Priest, Freemasons and liberals shot by the Rebels	Spanish Embassy	London	1937	24	Sp/14
Chapman Cohen	Spain and the Church		The Secular Society	London	1937	16	Sp/14
H. R. G.	A Catholic looks at Spain		Spanish Embassy	London	1937	40	Sp/14
John Langdon-Davies	The Spanish Church and Politics		Watts & Co	London	1937	8	Sp/14
A. Ramos Oliveira	Catholics and the Civil War in Spain		The National Council of Labour	London	1937	16	Sp/14
Various	Religion and Spain	A Reply to a Pamphlet of the United Christian Front	The Parliamentary Committee for Spain		1937	34	Sp/14
Various	Catholics Speak for Spain		North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy	New York	1937	32	Sp/14
Henry Brinton	Christianity and Spain		United Editorial ltd.	London	1938	82	Sp/14
Delegations to Spain Reports
Various	Spain Assailed	Student Delegates to Spain Report	Student Delegation to Spain	London	1938	48	Sp/14
Various	Spain	The visit of an all-party group of Members of Parliament to Spain	Lawrence & Wishart	London	1938	16	Sp/14
Various	Reports of a Religious Delegation to Spain April 1937		Victor Gollancz ltd.	London	1938	32	Sp/14
Various	Spain 1938	Report of Trade Union and Labour Party Members Delegation to Spain February 1938	International Brigade Wounded and Dependant's Aid Committee	London	1938	22	Sp/14
Edith M. Pye	Report on Visit to Spain		Friends Service Council	London	1939	8	Sp/14
Various	Report on the visit by an All Party Groupof Members of Parliament to Spain		Spanish Embassy	London	1939	24	Sp/14
	Soviet Russia and Spain	The full story of the Soviet Union's role in the fight for democracy in Spain	Friends of the Soviet Union	London	1944	8	Sp/14
Basil Davidson	Report on Spain		Union of Democratic Control Publication	London	1944	16	Sp/14
Isabel Brown	Spain: Durango	A Martyred City	Relief Committee for Victims of Fascism	London	1951	14	Sp/14
Various	Our Journey to Spain		Spanish State Tourism Department		1952	12	Sp/14
Franco, Catholic Church
	Children in Franco Spain		Spanish National Commission in Defence of Children		1938	30	Sp/14
	Franco in Barcelona		United Editorial ltd.	London	1938	26	Sp/14
	Spanish Workers Under Franco's Regime		General Workers' Union of Spain	London	1938	14	Sp/14
A Journalist	Foreign Journalists Under Franco's Terror		United Editorial ltd.	London	1938	32	Sp/14
Pilar Fidalgo	A young Mother in Franco's prisons		United Editorial ltd.	London	1938	32	Sp/14
G. M. Godden	Communist Operations in Spain		Burns Oates & Washbourne ltd.	London	1938	24	Sp/14
Hispanicus	Badajoz		The Friends of Spain	London	1938	20	Sp/14
Leocadio Lobo	Primate and Priest		Spanish Embassy	London	1938	16	Sp/14
Seumas Mac Kee	I was a Franco Soldier		United Editorial ltd.	London	1938	30	Sp/14
John McGovern	Why Bishops Back Franco	Report of Visit of Investigation to Spain	Independent Labour Party	London	1938	12	Sp/14
Enrique Moreno	Catholics and the Spanish State		The Friends of Spain	London	1938	48	Sp/14
Philip Noel-Baker	Franco Bombs British Seamen	Labour Condemns Chamberlain's Surrender	The Labour Party	London	1938	16	Sp/14
Various	Franco's Prisoners Speak		Spanish Ex-Servicemen's Association	London	1938	36	Sp/14
Sam Wild	Franco the fascist		International Brigade Association	London	1938	12	Sp/14
IB Mainly Individual Accounts and Photos
	Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade	51st Anniversary Dinner Invitation	VALB	New York City	ND	4	Sp/15
	Letters from Ken to Teddy				ND	7	Sp/15
	They Fought in Franco's Jails		Communist Part of Great Britain	London	ND	16	Sp/15
	Souvenir of the International Brigade Association Veterans Re-Union			Manchester	ND	4	Sp/15
John Angus	With the International Brigade in Spain		Loughborough University	Loughborough	ND	20	Sp/15
Jack Coward	Back from the Dead	with an Introduction on the Merseyside Volunteers in the International Brigade	Merseyside Writers	Liverpool	ND	56	Sp/15
Jack Coward	Back from the Dead	The Adventures of Jack Coward International Brigade	Daily Worker	London	ND	30	Sp/15
Dave Goodman	From the Tees to the Ebro: My Road to Spain		Middlesbrough Communist Party	Middlesbrough	ND	28	Sp/15
Frank Graham	The Spanish Civil War	Battles of the Brunete and the Aragon	Frank Graham	Newcastle upon Tyne	ND	66	Sp/15
Morgan Havard	We celebrated Christmas in a concentration camp		Morning Star	London	ND	1	Sp/15
Derek Lloyd	Derek Lloyd of Borth, talking to David Matthews				ND	3	Sp/15
Peter O'Connor	A Soldier of Liberty	Recollections of a socialist and anti-fascist fighter	MSF Union	Dublin	ND	44	Sp/15
Stuart Rawnsley	The International Brigade: Britain and the Spanish Civil War	A One Day School Saturday 17 November 1979	University of Manchester	Manchester	ND	1	Sp/15
Colin Shindler	Franco saviour to many Jews		Jewish Telegraph	London	ND	1	Sp/15
Various	Bulletin of the Political Commissars of the International Brigades	No. 2	Political Commissars of the International Brigades	Madrid	ND	36	Sp/15
Various	Bulletin of the Political Commissars of the International Brigades	No. 4	Political Commissars of the International Brigades	Madrid	ND	32	Sp/15
Various	British Battalion XV International Brigade		Marston Publicity	London	ND	80	Sp/15
Various	The Homecoming	Extracts from newspapers			ND	1	Sp/15
Various	Fighting side by side with Spanish Patriots Against Fascism		Novosti Publications	Moscow	ND	76	Sp/15
Various	Bill Feeley	Singer, Steel Erector, International Brigader	Constructional Division of the Auew	Manchester	ND	26	Sp/15
Italian & German Intervention in Spain
	Bombing of British Merchant Ships		Council for Spanish Relief	Manchester	1937	1	Sp/14
	Foreign Wings over Basque Country	The Spanish War	The Friends of Spain	London	1937	52	Sp/14
	Italians in Spain		Friends of Democracy and Independence in Spain		1937	16	Sp/14
	How Mussolini Provoked the Spanish Civil War	Documentary Evidence	United Editorial Ltd.	London	1937	10	Sp/14
	Italian Aggression in Spain	Documents captured from Italian troops in action at Guadalajara	Union of Democratic Control	London	1937	32	Sp/14
	How the German Fleet Shelled Almeria		Union of Democratic Control	London	1937	28	Sp/14
Dr. Norman Bethune	The crime on the road Malaga-Almeria		Publicaciones Iberia		1937	24	Sp/14
Guido Mattioli	The Italian Airforce in Spain	40 Photographs Taken by Mussolini's Observers	United Editorial Ltd.	London	1937	30	Sp/14
A. R. O.	Mussolini's Great Mistake in Spain		United Editorial Ltd.	London	1937	14	Sp/14
George Soria	Trotskyism in the Service of Franco	Facts and Documents on the activities of the P.O.U.M.	Lawrence & Wishart	London	1937	48	Sp/14
Madrid
Manuel Azana	Madrid		The Friends of Spain	London	1986	16	Sp/15
Various	The Defence of Madrid		Young Communist League	London	1986	12	Sp/15
	Madrid: The "Military" Atrocities of the Rebels	by the President of the Spanish Republic	Labour Party	London	1987	16	Sp/15
Maurice Orbach	Mission to Madrid	A record of massacre, muder, mutilation.	International Brigade Association	Watford	1988	16	Sp/15
	Murder in Madrid		International Brigade Association	Aldenham	1996	16	Sp/15
Republican Government Ministers Speeches & Statements
	Spanish Constitution 1978		Ministerio De Asuntos Exteriores	Madrid	1999	122	Sp/15
Manuel Azana	Speech Delivered by his Excellency Don Azana	President of the Spanish Republic in the Barcelona City Hall	Spanish Editions	Barcelona	2006	40	Sp/15
	Rebel Opposition to Efforts for the Humanisation of the Civil War in Spain		Spanish Embassy	London	ND	24	Sp/15
	A Biography of Doctor Juan Negrin				ND	2	Sp/15
Jose A. de Aguirre	An address by the President of the Government of Euzkadi, H. E. Jose A. de Aguirre	broadcast from "Radio Euzkadi" Dec. 22nd, 1936	Government of Euzkadi	Bilbao	ND	30	Sp/15
Jose Maria Arenillas	The Basque Country of Euzkadi	The National Question and the Socialist Revolution	Square One	Leeds	ND	26	Sp/15
Manuel Azana	Speech by Hid Excellency the President of the Spanish Republic		Spanish Embassy	London	ND	26	Sp/15
Manuel Azana	A Year of War in Spain		The Friends of Spain	London	ND	28	Sp/15
Federica Montseny	Buenaventura Durruti		Official Propaganda Services of the CNT - FAI	Barcelona	ND	26	Sp/15
Juan Negrin	The Will to Victory		Spanish Embassy	London	ND	8	Sp/15
Juan Negrin	The Italo-German Aggression against Spain	Three Speeches of Sr. Juan Negrin		Geneva	ND	20	Sp/15
Juan Negrin	Speech by Dr. Negrin President of the Council of Ministers	Barcelona 14th October, 1938	Spanish Editions	Barcelona	ND	12	Sp/15
Juan Negrin	Discours du Dr Juan Negrin	Madrid, 18 Juin 1938	Le Comite International D'Aide Au Peuple Espagnol	Paris	ND	16	Sp/15
Indalecio Prieto	A Speech by Indalecio Prieto	Barcelona 28th August 1938	Spanish Editions	Barcelona	ND	48	Sp/15
Fernando de los Rios	What is Happening in Spain?		Spanish Embassy	London	ND	30	Sp/15
Jose Manuel Gallegos Rocafull	Crusade - or Class War?	The Spanish Military Revolt	The Friends of Spain	London	ND	12	Sp/15
Various	Intellectuals and the Spanish Military Rebellion		Spanish Embassy	London	ND	32	Sp/15
Alvarez del Vayo	Speech of Senor Alvarez del Vayo	at The Council of the League of Nations	Union of Democratic Control	London	ND	24	Sp/15
Symposiums on Spain
	Authors take sides on the Spanish War		Left Review	London	1937	28	Sp/14
Johan Matteo	Democracy or Revolution in Spain?		Independent Labour Party	London	1937	72	Sp/14
Various	Freedom for Spain		Socialist Vanguard Group	Auckland	1937	32	Sp/14
Various	Spain & Us		Committee for Spanish Medical Aid	London	1937	22	Sp/14
Miscellany
	The Spanish People's Struggle	The Facts and their Significance	Spanish People's Front	London	1931	16	Sp/14
	For Peace	Against Franco	International Brigade Association	London.	1936	4	Sp/14
	Spain Against the Invaders	Napoleon 1808-Hitler and Mussolini 1936	United Editorial Limited	London	1936	42	Sp/14
Martha Ackelsberg	Mujeres Libres	Organzing Women During the Spanish Revolution	Direct Action Movement	London	1936	18	Sp/14
J. Barrot	Fascism/Antifascism		Black Cat Press	Edmonton	1936	36	Sp/14
Pedro Checa	Spain Today		C.P.S	Madrid	1936	42	Sp/14
Louis Fischer	Why Spain Fights On		Union of Democratic Control	London	1936	64	Sp/14
H. R. G. Greaves	The Truth about Spain		Victor Gollancz ltd.	London	1936	96	Sp/14
Charlie Hore	Spain 1936	Popular Front or Workers' Power?	Socialist Workers Party	London	1936	38	Sp/14
Sir Frederic Kenyon	Art Treasures of Spain		Spanish Embassy	London	1936	28	Sp/14
Rev. H. D. Longbottom	"What I Saw In Spain"		Protestant Reformers Church	Liverpool	1936	24	Sp/14
Gordon Schaffer	No Pact with Franco		Internation Brigade Association	London	1936	6	Sp/14
Alfred. M. Wall	The Truth Behind the Spanish Rebellion		London Trades Council	London	1936	16	Sp/14
	Agrarian Reform in Spain	An Historical Study by the Spanish Institue for Agrarian Reform	United Editorial Limited	London	1937	76	Sp/14
	Calendar of the democratic Spanish Republic 1938				1937	13	Sp/14
	Spain; The Great Asturias Tragedy		Anarchist-Communist Federation	Glasgow	1937	1	Sp/14
	Education in Republican Spain Goes Forward!		Popular Front Government	London	1937	8	Sp/14
	The 13 Points		Government of National Union	Ripoli	1937	1	Sp/14
Patricio Azcarate	Report of the Youth Conference Held in London 08/07/1944	The Situations of the Spanish Youth under Franco's Terror	Spanish Republican House	London	1937	19	Sp/14
Captain Liddell Hart	Britain and Spain		Liberal Publication Department	London	1937	14	Sp/14
John McNair	In Spain NOW!		Independent Labour Party	London	1937	16	Sp/14
A. Ramos Oliveira	The Fight of the Spanish People Under Franco's Terror			Bristol	1937	72	Sp/14
Bill Rust	Bill Rust's Message to You	The Real Story of Spain's Heroic Fight	Daily Worker	Manchester	1937	4	Sp/14

International Brigade Volunteers from the North West of England

Greater Manchester
File at WCML	Name	Year of Birth	Organisation	Home/Branch	Trade	Trade Union	Where killed	Notes
*	Madge Addy			Manchester	nurse			last to leave Spain
	A Alston			Manchester				returnee
*	Charles Armitage			Oldham	cobbler			returnee
*	Alex Armstrong	1913	YCL	Hulme	builder		Jarama	Bexley Square
	Frank Bailey			Bury
	W Henry Baker			Manchester				returnee
*	William Banks	1908	CP	Eccles		AEU	Ebro
	Ronald Barber			Manchester
	Alex Barker	1915	YCL	Platting				Twins
	Hugh Barker	1915	YCL	Platting				-do- returnee
	F Bartrop			Manchester				returnee
*	Clem Beckett	1906	CP	Oldham	blacksmith		Jarama	speedway rider
	Dave Bennett	1920	YCL	Cheetham				sent home-under age
*	Bill Benson	1911	CP	Eccles	Electric	ETU		NUWM, returnee
	Alec Bernstein			Manchester
	Peter Bexfield			Manchester
	Emeric Biederman			Manchester				artillery
	Edward Billington		CP	Platting
	P Bloomfield			Manchester				returnee
*	Fred Bloor	1916	LP	Rusholme				returnee
	Karl Boden			Salford
	Herbert Booth	1912	CP	Platting				NUWM
	Herbert Booth			Manchester				returnee
	N Booth			Manchester				returnee
*	Syd Booth	1910	CP	Ardwick		NUR		returnee
	Ken Bowden		CP	Manchester		AEU		returnee
	Cyril Bowman	1917	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW		invalided home
*	Ken Bradbury	1917	YCL	Oldham	printer		Teruel
	Jim Brennan							returnee
	M Brennan			Manchester				returnee
	Willy Broncou			Stockport
	Fred Brooks		CP	Eccles?
	Frank Brown	1915	YCL	Salford			Ebro	Ex LP LOY
***	George Brown	1906	CP	Platting			Brunete	M/c CP organiser
	Michael Brown	1902	CP	Platting				deserter
*	William Brown			Stockport			Jarama
*	Joseph Buckley		no party	Oldham				WWII prisoner
	Albert Burgen			Withington				prisoner
	H Byrne			Manchester				returnee
	William Byrne			Manchester				prisoner, returnee
	Hugh Byrom			Manchester			Ebro
***	Ralph Cantor	1916	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW	Brunete	diary; letters, musician
	Frank Carney		IRA			NUWM	returnee	Irish
	W.K Carsels			Manchester
*	Albert Charlesworth			Oldham	metal		returnee	battalion postman
	Robert Clarke		CP	Salford
	Arthur Clinton		ILP	Swinton
	Edward Coleman			Manchester
*	Jud Colman	1916	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW	returnee	Book – memoirs
	Joseph Coniffe			Cheetham				prisoner
	William Cooney			Manchester				returnee
	Hector Coop			Manchester
	Frederick L Copp			Manchester			Gandesa
	Ernest G Corbett			Hulme				Returnee p.3
	J Daniels			Manchester				returnee
	Josh Davidson	1916	YCL	Cheetham	Furniture	NUFTO		failed medical, sent back
	Albert Davis			Manchester
	J Donoghue			Manchester				returnee
	Jack Elliott	1917	YCL	Platting			returnee	prisoner
*	Tommy Fanning	1908	CP	Hulme			returnee	NUWM lost leg
*	Alex Ferguson		CP	Rochdale	caretaker			returnee
*	Joe Fillingham		CP	Bury		GMWU	Teruel	EC Bury Trades Council
	Sydney Fink	1916	YCL	Salford			Belchite	YCL sec.
*	George Fletcher		CP	Platting				returnee
	Charles L Foxall			Sale			Jarama
	Tommy Freeman	1917	YCL	Platting			returnee	NUWM, sanitary
*	Randolph Garrett		CP	Platting	seaman		returnee	repatriated
	Albert Godwin			Dukinfield				prisoner
	Benny Goldman	1917	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW		returnee
	Michael Goodison	1900	LP	Salford	docker	T&G	Ebro
*	Benny Goodman	1917	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW		returnee
	Phillip Goodman			Manchester				WWII veteran
*	Robert Goodman	1912	YCL	Salford	engraver		Jarama	Kinder 1932
	George Green			Stockport			Ebro
	Maurice Green			Manchester			Aragon	medical
*	Walt Greenhalgh		YCL	Platting	painter		returnee	London LP cllr later
	Arthur Grimshaw			Manchester			returnee	prisoner
	Peter Grimshaw			Salford				sent back
	William Halliday			Littleboro
	Samuel Hansey			Manchester				returnee
*	Charles Hanson			Oldham	cottnwkr			returnee
*	Harry Heap	1889	CP	Oldham	soldier		Cordova	aka Rawson WWI vet
	Ivor Hickman			Stretford			Ebro
*	Paul Hogarth	1916	CP	Rusholme				cartoonist, artist
	T Hogg			Manchester				returnee
	John Howarth			Manchester			Gandesa
*	William Jackson	1916		Oldham			Gandesa
	A Jamieson			Manchester				returnee
	Arthur Jamieson			Manchester				repatriated
*	Arnold Jeans	1907	CP	Rusholme			Boadilla	Russian origin
	E. H. Jordan			Oldham				Platting?
	Lawrence Jordan	1915	YCL	Platting			Brunete	Rochdale ?
	Charles Justesen		ILP	Cheetham				POUM
	Thomas Kenna			Manchester
	Jim Kenny		YCL	Platting
	Pat W Kenny	1919	YCL	Platting			Jarama	NUWM
	James Keogh			Ashton			Calacete
	James Knottman	1914	CP	Cheetham?			Cordova
	Jack J Krammer			Manchester				or Birmingham ?
*	John Kremner			Cheetham?
*	Joseph Lees		LP	Oldham				LP sec., tenor horn
***	Maurice Levine	1907	CP	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW	returnee	Tapes; Book–memoirs
	Jim Lowrey		CP	Platting				NUWM
	James E Lowry			Manchester				returnee
*	Bert Maskey	1893	no Party	NUWM	Barber		Jarama	born Vilna, Russia
	T A Massie			Manchester				returnee
	Bill Matthews			Manchester			returnee	prisoner
	Thomas McGhee			Manchester				knew George Brown
	McGinleyWilliam	1899	CP	Salford	engineer		returnee	NUWM
*	Albert McIntosh	1907	CP	Platting				returnee
*	Bernard McKenna		YCL	Hulme				prisoner, returnee
	Maury Mendelson		YCL	Cheetham	furniture	NUFTO	returnee	&Stockport; Councillor
*	John Monks	1910	CP	Platting				returnee
*	Thomas Moore	1916	YCL	Platting			Teruel	YCL treasurer
*	Charles Morgan			Moss Side			returnee	to UK after Jarama
	Sidney Morton			Salford			Casa de	Campo
	Molly Murphy		LP	Salford	nurse			ill health – to UK
	Joseph Murray			Rochdale				prisoner
*	Fred Newbury	1901	LP	NUWM			Jarama	WWI veteran
*	Joe Norman	1918	CP	Salford	engineer			boxer, prisoner
	Albert Parkes	1902	CP	Hulme			Brunete
*	Fred Pearson		YCL	Rusholme				returnee
*	Arthur Porter	1916	YCL	Rusholme	metal		Jarama	Co-op worker
	William Povan			Manchester			returnee	prisoner, aka Povah
	William Pover		CP	Platting?
	Leslie Praeger		YCL	Cheetham			returnee	ambulance
	R Pressman		YCL	Manchester				returnee
	Richard Pressman		YCL	Rusholme				ack-ack; sent home?
	Frank Proctor			Manchester
	Percy F Roberts			Manchester				prisoner, returnee
	Robert Roberts			Rochdale				prisoner
	R. P Robinson			Manchester??				returnee
*	Monty Rosenfield	1917	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW	WWII	returnee
*	Vic Shammah	1915	YCL	Didsbury	Clerk	NUC	Aragon	YCL sec. Challenge
	Frank Shaw			Oldham
*	Sydney Silvert	1913	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW	returnee	letters home, POUM?
	Sol Simons	1916	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW		returnee
	C Skerrington			Manchester				returnee
	Albert C Smith			Manchester			Brunete	Scot? died in prison
	Fred E Smith			Manchester			returnee	died 10/3/38
	Walter Sproston	1906	ILP	Swinton	engineer		Belchite
	Leslie Ed Starr	1917	YCL	Cheetham				returnee
	Maurice Stott			Rochdale			Jarama
	Albert Stubbs	1916		Wythenshawe
*	Dick Stubbs	1913	CP	Wythenshawe		AEU		returnee CP sec.
	Douglas Sutton			Manchester				returnee
*	Eddie Swindells	1914	YCL	Rusholme	glasswkr		Jarama	Salford? Art club?
	James Tilston			Manchester				prisoner, returnee
	F Tongue			Manchester				returnee
	Lillian Urmston	1915		Stalybridge	nurse		returnee	interned France, 39?
	John Walsh			Manchester			returnee	artillery unit
	Robert Ward	1914	YCL	Hulme			died in	hosp after Jarama
*	Terry Ward	1920		Moss Side			returnee	leg amputated
*	George Westfield	1916	YCL	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW	Belchite	Liverpudlian
	Frank Whitehead	1913	LP	Wythenshawe	optician		Jarama
	J Whittle			Manchester
	John Whittle			Bury				returnee
***	Sam Wild	1908		Ardwick	Navy		returnee	Battalion commander
	Norm Wilkinson	1914	YCL	Platting	plumber		Jarama
	Kenneth J Wilson			Manchester			Jarama
*	Wolfe Winnick	1910	CP	Cheetham	Clothing	T&GW		boxer, returnee
*	Cliff Wolstencroft			Oldham	cottnwkr		Belchite	Aragon?

Merseyside, Liverpool and St Helens
File at WCML	Name	Year of Birth	Organisation	Home/Branch	Trade	Trade Union	Where killed	Notes
	Jimmy Allen	1913	CP	Birkenhead				lost 4 fingers
	Richard Beadles	1908	CP	Neston			Jarama	boxer, NUWM
*	Leonard Bibby		CP	Liverpool
	William J Bogle		CP	Liverpool			Jarama
	J Bourke			Liverpool				Irish
	Tom Carlisle	1911		St. Helens	nurse
	Jimmy Carroll			Liverpool				prisoner, Irish
	Kearney Cassels			Bootle				prisoner, returnee
*	Robert Clark	1911	CP	Liverpool	bricklayer
	Jack Cohen		CP	Liverpool			Jarama
	Simon Cohen			Liverpool
	Albert Cole			Liverpool				prisoner in Valencia
*	Jack Coward		CP	Liverpool	Seaman			prisoner
	Harold Cowderoy			Birkenhead
	R Crocott			Leigh
	Vincent Crompton			Liverpool
	Pat Curry			Liverpool
	Pat Curry			Liverpool
	J Dalglish			Leigh			Jarama
	Robert Davidson			Liverpool
*	Frank Deegan		CP	Bootle				Irish
	Frank Desan			Liverpool
	Robert Doherty			Liverpool
	John Drake			Liverpool	sailor
	Harold Dwyer			Liverpool
	James Edge			Liverpool
	Jack Edwards			Liverpool
	John Edwards			Ormskirk
*	W Feeley	1913		St. Helens	Steel	AEU		memorial book
	James Foley	1907		Liverpool	docker			Irish
	W J Giles		CP	Liverpool			Jarama
	Robert Hale			Liverpool
	Alan A Harris		CP	Liverpool			Brunete
*	Jack Headley		CP	Liverpool	painter	NSoc P		IRA, active 1926
	James Hodgson			Liverpool				prisoner
	George Hollanby			Liverpool			Gandesa
	Ben Hughes			Liverpool
	Edward Jackman		CP	Liverpool?			Jarama
	Mick Johnson		CP	Liverpool			returnee
	S J Johnson			St. Helens
	F Jones			Liverpool?				captured at Jarama – 20 year sentence
*	Jack Jones		CP	Liverpool			returnee	Gen.Sec T&G
	James Jones	1913		Liverpool
	John L Jones	1913		Liverpool
	William Jones			Liverpool				disappeared on retreat from Gandesa
	William Kearney			Liverpool
	Robert Kirk		CP	Liverpool			Jarama
	James R Lord			Liverpool
*	Peter Martin	1910		St. Helens	labourer
	Chas Martinson			Liverpool				captured at Jarama
	Albert McCabe		CP	Bootle			Brunete
	Bernard McCormick			St. Helens
	'Patsy' McEwen		CP	Liverpool			Jarama	born Dundee
	George McKeown			Liverpool			Jarama
	Will McKnight			Liverpool
	Thomas McLeod			Liverpool			Aragon
	Eugene McParland			Birkenhead				Irish
	Dennis P Mooney			Liverpool				medical
	Joseph Moran			Birkenhead	Waiter
	Barney Mumford	1911	CP	Birkenhead	docker
	Pat Murray			Liverpool				Irish
	Peter J Newman			Birkenhead?			Jarama
	James Nixon			St. Helens
	James T Norbury		CP	Liverpool			Jarama
	Frank Norton		LP	Liverpool	blacksmith		Jarama
	Thomas O'Brien		CP	Liverpool			Jarama	Irish
	Peter O'Shea			Liverpool
	John D Owens		CP	Liverpool			Jarama	WWI veteran NUWM
	J Petterson		CP	Liverpool?			Ebro
	Ernest Pilson		CP	Liverpool?	Building
*	J. Frank Proctor	1918	LP	Liverpool			Ebro	died hosp, Sa.Pandols
	James Pugh			Liverpool				captured at Jarama
	Joseph Rawlings			Liverpool
	John Redmond		CP	Liverpool			Aragon
	Ernie Savage		CP	Warrington
	James Scott			Liverpool
	James M. Shand			Liverpool				ack-ack unit
	Jim Shaw			Warrington			prisoner
	Robert E Silcock			Liverpool?				prisoner
	Thomas Silcock		CP	Liverpool				executed at Jarama
	William Smith		CP	Birkenhead			Aragon
	James W Stewart			Wallasey			Jarama
	Steven Storey			Liverpool				prisoner; aka Storrie
	Louis Tanklevitch			Liverpool			Belchite	aka Tankovitch
	Edward A Taylor			Birkenhead	gardener
	Len Thompson			Bootle
	Len Thompson			Bootle
	Will M Thompson			Bootle
	'Digger' Wallace			Liverpool
	James Walsh		CP	Birkenhead			Jarama
	Grenville Wiffen			Liverpool				captured at Jarama
	G Wilding			Liverpool

Lancashire
	Joe Alwyn			Bolton			Jarama
	William Bailey		Gt.	Harwood			Jarama
	Edwin Blood			Wigan				repatriated
	Fred Borrino			Lancs
	Felicia Browne			Lancs	nurse			artist
*	George Buck			Nelson				sent home
	Harry Bury	1913	CP	Bolton	doctor			ran base hospital
	Harold Croston			Wigan
	Bertha Dickinson		CP	Lancs	nurse
	Fred- Drinkwater			Burnley			Brunete
	Edward Gallagher			Wigan			Brunete
	Henry E. Gaze			Accrington				prisoner
*	Philip Harker		CP	Bolton		NUWM		hunger marcher
	Jack Howley		CP	Colne				prisoner
	John Jolly			Burnley
	Thomas H Jones	1908		Lancs			Ebro	+Aberdare, S.Wales
	T Fred Killick	1915	YCL	Southport			Jarama
	Sam Langley			Nelson
*	Jim Mann		CP	Bolton	labourer	NUWM		died later of wounds
*	Joe Moran		CP	Bolton	waiter			to Canada
	Charles Nelson			Lancaster
	William Roscoe			Blackburn
*	Mary Slater		CP	Preston	nurse
	Harry G Sutcliffe			Blackpool
	Harry Taylor			Rawtenstall
	Cyril Walsh			Bolton
	Peter J Whittaker			Southport				prisoner
	Ernie Woolley	1911	CP	Barrow	aviator			Based at Los Alcazeres aerodrome - Murcia

				Others
*	Ted Edwards		CP	Portmadoc	Seaman	Returnee	IB Lieutenant	Battalion secretary
***	Branson Clive ,	1907			artist, poet			born India, 1932 CP, helped found Marx House, Franco prisoner 8 months, org. convoy tour raising funds for Spain. Wrote "British Soldier in India", Killed in Burma WWII 1943

Each of these men is a signatory of a letter of the Lancashire men of the British Battalion of the I.B. to the District Committee of the C.P.G.B., signed by Sam Wild, officer commanding 57th "British" Battalion:
V Acton Alex Barker G. Buck Dave Bennett Albert Burgess Frank C Brown Robert Clarke Frank Deegan William Feeley	Charles Gallagher Benny Goldman Benny Goodman Samuel Harvey I Kremner Albert McIntosh George Mumford James Nixon	Ernest Pilson Frank Proctor Monty Rosenfield Frank Shaw Sol Simons T. Thompson Will Thompson John Whittle

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