AMONG the men listed on the Spanish Civil War memorial is James Burley-Poole, of Shelton Street, Nottingham, who fought with the British Battalion.
He was last seen at the Battle of Belchite, when 80,000 Republicans and their International Brigade supporters clashed with Franco's Nationalists.
The town of Belchite was reduced to rubble and somewhere in its ruins, James Burley-Poole was lost.
Robert Goodman, who lived at 10 Newton Park Road, in The Park, Nottingham, was another city man who threw in his lot with the Republicans. He was killed during fierce clashes in the Jarama Valley in 1938.
Some Notts heroes survived the desperate fighting, which claimed at least half a million lives – about 500 of them from Britain.
Walter Gregory, of 13 Ingram Terrace, Bulwell, answered the Spanish call for help.
He was in the thick of some of the worst clashes. Three times he was wounded: at Jarama, Brunette and Ebro.
On August 6, 1938, he fought around the shattered town of Corbera.
It was the last day of action for the British Battalion and Gregory, who commanded a company, was captured.
He was later repatriated and wrote a novel about his experiences called The Shallow Grave.
The Civil War devastated Spain from July 17, 1936, to April 1, 1939, ending with victory for the rebel forces, the overthrow of the Republican government, and the founding of a dictatorship led by General Franco.