Alex McDade
British political commissar
About Alex McDade
Lived 1905 – 1937 (aged 31–32).
Alex McDade (1905–1937) was a Glasgow poet and labourer who went to Spain to fight with XV International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He was a political commissar with the British Battalion and wounded at the Battle of Jarama in February 1937. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of Brunete at Villanueva de la Cañada on 6 July 1937. He wrote the poem "Valley of Jarama".
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Who was Alex McDade?
British political commissar (1905–1937)
When was Alex McDade born?
Alex McDade was born in 1905.
When did Alex McDade die?
Alex McDade died in 1937.
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