A leaflet produced by the Christchurch branch of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee (SMAC) during the Spanish Civil War.
The only organised contingent sent from New Zealand to the Spanish Civil War comprised three nurses, René Shadbolt, Isobel Dodds and Millicent Sharples. They were recruited by SMAC and were used to help promote the organisation. Their photographs appeared on posters (as here), and their letters home were printed in newspapers and in SMAC's regular newsletter. When Shadbolt and Dodds arrived back in New Zealand in January 1939 they continued to work for SMAC, embarking on a six-week speaking tour to raise awareness of and money for the hundreds of thousands of republican refugees in France.
Christchurch SMAC records, Item 6. Jack Locke Deposit, Canterbury University Library
Reproduced courtesy of Susan Skudder
