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The Spanish Civil War was primarily a fight between the nationalist Fascists and the democratic Republicans. 

Griff Maclaurin and Steve Yates were part of the International Column of anti-fascist volunteers who marched into Madrid, bolstering the city's defences against the assault of General Franco's rebel armies. They were killed in battle within two days of arriving

Griff Maclaurin, one of the first international volunteers to be killed in the Spanish Civil War.

Just how did a boy born in Palmerston North come to witness first hand the impact of Stalinism, the rise of Hitler and the Spanish Civil War?