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Having seen the excellent work in finding images of International Brigade volunteers and then putting names to their faces on the International Brigade Memorial Trust Facebook page. All the information and photographs are from this Facebook page.

I have created this post with some of the images uploaded. More will be added in the future and as more information and photographs are put on the Facebook page. I hope this post will help keep the memory of the sacrifice and bravery made by the volunteers.

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: Wilton Chite (real name Chute), Lincoln-Washington Battalion, from Musicians Union taken in September 1937

: Right: Wally Sabatini (Commissar in the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion); Middle: Abe Harris (Quatermaster); Left: Joseph Dougher.

: Abe Harris

: Brigadistas Franceses in Madrid, 1936

: Samuel C. Willis (Runner, Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion). From Philadelphia. He went missing in action in Belchite-Caspe on 17th March, 1938

: Samuel C. Willis (Runner, Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion).

: Horace L. Sieve (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion) was killed in the Great Retreats near Gandesa on April 1st 1938. Originally from Boston, MA.

: Emiliano Marín, Cuban (possibily Peurto Rican) in Lincoln-Washington Battalion.

: Gustav Kleiger

: Harry Poll

: Ivor Hickman, died aged just 23, his face shows the strain and effect of war. He is subject of the fantastic book The Last to Fall, The Life and Letters of Ivor Hickman: an International Brigadier in Spain, by John L. Wainwright.

: Medical volunteers. Right (possibly) Dr. Edward Barsky

: Holding the machine gun: Dr. Edward Barskey

: Dr. Edward Barskey

: Dr. Edward Barskey and Dr. Weiss

: Group of unknown soliders

: Dr. Luis Díaz Soto, Lincoln-Washington Battalion medical staff

: Clyder Taylor, (Mackenzie Papineau Battalion). He was training as a doctor before he came to Spain. He and British brigader Ronald Barber used to help with villagers’ medical complaints in Ambite village. Sadly Clyde was captured at Teruel with “Yorkie” Burton and another unnamed brigader whilst serving with the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion and was shot

: 15th Brigade International Armores, Lincoln-Washington Battalion

: David Gordon, political commissar

: Andrew Mitchel

: Crawford Morgan, o Killed outside Gandesa on April 2nd 1938.

: Captain Philippe Detró Chie, o a big man at 6ft.4. “During the fighting at Fuentes de Ebro, Detro took over from Hans Amlie as commander of the Lincoln-Washington Battalion. He was injured at Mosquito Ridge and therefore missed the Quinto campaign.” … “Philip Detro was shot by a sniper while fighting in Teruel in January 1938. He was rescued by Joe Bianca and taken to the dressing station. The doctor found that he had a compound fracture in the right femur. He was advised to have his leg amputated but he refused and he died of gangrene six weeks later in a Murcia hospital”

: Ivor Hickman. 15th International Brigade Observers Ebro front August 1938

: Lieutenant Williams Digges, died on the Lerida Front in May 1938 when the XV Brigade was in reserve either in a car accident or from “accidental suicide”. “General” Digges, as he was nicknamed on the XV Brigade Staff, is an enigma.