prisoners in the Republic’s jails, about 1,000 of them from the POUM. The Right Opposition and other marxist groupings organised an international campaign in solidarity with the POUM prisoners which probably saved their leaders from a similar fate to Nin’s. The IBRSU also sent several delegations to Spain to visit the party’s prisoners and try to secure their release, the first headed by its General Secretary, Fenner Brockway. In August, another delegation arrived including the ILP MP James Maxton. A third delegation went in November headed by another ILP MP, John McGovern. Despite the suppression of POUM, not all of the ILP contingent returned home immediately. Arthur Chambers, Bob Williams and Reg Hiddlestone all stayed on to fight in Spain. Williams returned home in December 1938 after being injured three times, Hiddleston was the final member of the contingent left in Spain, returning home in February 1939, leaving Barcelona only hours before Barcelona fell. Chambers was the only member of the ILP contingent to be killed in combat in Spain when he was shot by a sniper in August 1938 after transferring to a Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) unit. ILP Contingent Agnew, John Avory, Lewis Ernest Bennett, William Blair, Eric (George Orwell), corporal; wounded by sniper 20.5.37 Braithwaite (Branthwaite), John Buttonshaw, Harvey Castle, Les Chambers, Bill, corporal, killed after transferring to another unit 8/37 Clarke, William Clinton, Arthur, wounded in shoulder during shelling 3/37 Coles, Tom Connor, Jock Cottman, Stafford Donovan, (Paddy) John, sergeant Doran, Charles Edwards, Bob, driver of ILP ambulance 9/36; Poum captain - returned to Britain in March 1937 for ILP conference, but because of British anti-volunteer policy he couldn’t return to Spain, Evans Farrell, James Frankford, Frank Gross, George Hiddlestone, Reg, wounded in night attack 4/37 Hunter, Philip, leg injury 4/37 Jones, Uriah, served until early 1938; after the disbanding of the Poum militia joined Psuc unit Julius Justessen, Charles Kupinsky/i, Wolf, ("Harry Milton"), In Barcelona's Modelo prison 13.8.37. - released after pressure from US consulate Levin, Louis McDonald, Robert Mcneil, Hugh Martin, W. B. - drove ambulance from Britain to Aragon in September 1936. Had been an artillery man in the first world war and was put in charge of artillery section of 60 men Moyle, Douglas O’Hara, Patrick, first aid Parker, Thomas "Buck", corporal, wounded during advance 4/37 Ramon Ritchie, John Smillie, Bob died in prison Smith James J Stearns, Douglas Clark "Tanky"