Ambulance bought by the Independent Labour Party for 250 pounds (about £12,000 today) and sent to the POUM militia. Named after presumed dead POUM leader Joaquim Maurin, in fact languishing in Francoist prison under a false identity. The ambulance left Clapham for Barcelona on 27 September 1936. Used on Huesca front.

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George Orwell with British comrades. Independent Labour Party summer school 1937 after returning from  Spain. Ex POUM militia comrade young Stafford Cottman top left, John McNair bottom right. From the IWM archive, London.