The following list names those from New Zealand, or who later came to live in New Zealand, for whom there is evidence of their involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Those whose names appear in bold face were killed in action in that war.
Name | Birth date and place | Death date and place | Spanish Civil War service |
Angermann, Dr Marianne | 1904, Germany | 1977, NZ | Medical assistant, Republican Army medical services, 1936–39 |
Belcher, William Redmond Morrison | 1 January 1912, Geelong, Australia | 14 February 1999, Waiheke Island | Anarchist militia, 1936–1938 |
Bielschowsky, Dr Franz David | 1902, Germany | Dunedin, 1965 | Doctor, Republican Army medical services, 1936–39 |
Bryan, Herbert Richard | 1908, Timaru | 1961, Dunedin | British Battalion, International Brigades, 1938 |
Cox, Sir Geoffrey Sandford | 7 April 1910, Rangitīkei | 2 April 2008, Gloucestershire, England | Journalist, Madrid, October–December 1936 |
Cross, Phllip E. | 17 March 1906, Hamilton | 14 February 1965, Whangārei | Nationalist (pro-Franco) army, 1936–37 |
De Treend, Leonardo Pedro | 6 October 1919, San Sebastian, Spain | (living in Hastings, NZ) | POUM and militia, 1937–38 |
Dodds, Isobel (later McGuire) | 15 September 1913, Auckland | (living in Auckland) | Nurse, International Brigades, July 1937–October 1938 |
Droescher, Werner Otto | 5 January 1911, Karlsruhe, Germany | 1979, Auckland | Anarchist and other militia, 1936–38 |
Ford, Robert | 1910, US | 1993, Auckland | Lincoln Battalion, International Brigades, May 1937–October 1938 |
Gray, Bernard Maurice | 20 May 1912, Masterton | 1984, Lower Hutt | British Battalion, International Brigades |
Griffiths, Eric Neville | 9 September 1912, England | 23 February 1942, Nadi, Fiji | Pilot, Spanish Air Force, 1936–37 |
Hoy, Jim | 26 February 1910, Liverpool, UK | 18 December 1997, Wellington | British Battalion, International Brigades, 1938 (?) |
16 December 1904, Cromwell | 19 December 1983, Surrey, England | Lieutenant-surgeon, Republican Army Medical Corps, February 1937–October 1938 | |
Kent, John Horatio (Jack) | Eltham, February 1911 | 31 May 1937, Barcelona, Spain | Volunteer for International Brigades |
McDonald, William Murn | 1913, Dunedin | 1968, Lisbon, Portugal | Abraham Lincoln and Garibaldi Battalions, International Brigades, January 1937–October 1938 |
MacIntosh, Dr Robert Reynolds | 17 October 1897, Timaru | 28 August 1989, England | Anaesthetist, Nationalist Army medical services, 1937 |
19 September 1909, Auckland | 10 November 1936, Madrid | Commune de Paris Battalion, International Brigades, November 1936 | |
Maclure, Alexander Crocker | 25 November 1911, Montreal, Canada | October 1937, Fuentes de Ebro | ‘Mac-Pap’ and Lincoln Battalions, International Brigades, March –October 1937 |
Madigan, William, aka ‘Martinez’ | 24 July 1916, Wellington (?) | 1938, Spain | Lincoln Battalion, International Brigades, 1 937–38 |
Montgomery, Dr Gladys | 4 June 1891, Hamilton | 23 December 1969, Auckland | Doctor, British medical unit, 1937 |
Morris, Dorothy A. | c. 1903–04, Christchurch (?) | 23 January 1998, Christchurch | Nurse, International Brigades, February 1937–39 |
Riley, Charles Francis (Dennis) | 1893, Stepney, London | 21 November 1982, Lower Hutt | British Battalion, International Brigades, 1937–38 |
Robertson, Frederick Holmes | 15 February, Cairo, Egypt | 1937, Jarama, Spain | British Battalion, International Brigades, 1937 |
Russell, Sir Peter | 24 October 1913, Christchurch | 22 June 2006, Oxford, UK | Covert intelligence agent, British government |
Shadbolt, René (Renee) Mary | 26 April 1903, Duvauchelle, Akaroa | 16 August 1977, Henderson, Auckland | Nursing sister, International Brigades, February 1937–October 1938 |
Sharples, Rubi Millicent (née Milner) | 1892, Temuka | 4 April 1945, Auckland | Nurse, International Brigades, July 1937–May 1938 |
Spiller, Herbert Leonard (Tom) | 1909, Napier | 12 December 1984, Wellington | British Battalion, International Brigades, 1937 |
Texidor, Greville | 1902, London | 1962, Australia | Women’s militia, anarchist militia, supporting orphaned children |
Wilson, Beryl Una | 8 March 1907, NZ | 1993, Auckland | Theatre nurse, International Brigades, December 1936–1938 |
Yates, Steve | c. 1895, NZ | 10 November 1936, Madrid | Commune de Paris Battalion, International Brigades, November 1936 |
This table is an updated version of the original contained in Mark Derby (ed.), Kiwi Compañeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2009.
The researchers and authors welcome any further information on the above names, and on others we may have missed. Please contact: Spanish War, c/-Labour History Project, PO Box 27-425, Wellington, email [email protected], or leave a community contribution below.
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