catalog the history of the British Battalion. Roll of Honour The IBMT has compiled a roll of honour, listing the members of the British battalion who fell in Spain. The list is compiled primarily from documents held in the International Brigade Archive in the Marx Memorial Library, London and the International Brigade Archive in the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Recent Historical Documents, Moscow. Notable members Bill Alexander – industrial chemist, commander of the British Battalion from 1938, later Assistant General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Christopher Caudwell – journalist, poet, killed in action at Jarama. Lewis Clive – Olympic gold medallist for rowing. Fred Copeman – former sailor, organiser of the Invergordon Mutiny, commanded the British Battalion during 1937. John Cornford – poet, killed in uncertain circumstances at Lopera, near Córdoba Jason Gurney – British sculptor, also served with the Lincoln Battalion. Len Crome – doctor, neuropathologist, winner of the Military Cross during the Second World War. Jack Jones – later General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union. Laurie Lee – poet, novelist, author of As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, a memoir which covers his experiences. Bert "Yank" Levy who used his experience to teach the British Home Guard and wrote a text on guerrilla warfare Will Paynter – NUM General Secretary 1959 – 1968 Esmond Romilly – journalist, nephew of Winston Churchill. Stephen Spender – poet, essayist, professor at University College, London, knighted 1983. Alfred Sherman – Conservative philosopher, battalion Russian translator; taken prisoner in 1938. Wally Tapsell - political commissioner, killed in action in 1938. Tom Wintringham – journalist, author, commander of the British Battalion to 1937. Annie Murray - Scottish nurse, one of the first British volunteers, in September 1936, returned accompanying the injured in 1939. Further reading British Volunteers for Liberty: Spain, 1936–39, Bill Alexander, Lawrence & Wishart, 1983, . No to Franco, the Struggle Never Stopped, 1939–1975, Bill Alexander, 1992, . British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Richard Baxell, Routledge, 2004, . The Shallow Grave: Memoir of the Spanish Civil War, Walter Gregory, Gollancz, 1986, . Reason in Revolt, Fred Copeman, Blandford Press, 1948. (Out of print) Britons in Spain – The History of the British Battalion of the XVTH International Brigade, William Rust, Lawrence & Wishart, 1939. Crusade in Spain, Jason Gurney, Faber. 1974. We Cannot Park on Both Sides: Reading volunteers