Robert Hale Merriman
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Robert Hale Merriman was an American doctoral student who fought with the Republican forces in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the I
Merriman's Santa Cruz High School yearbook photo, 1925
Sagebrush, 1932
Publications Board, 1932
Sigma Nu, 1932
International Brigades
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The International Brigades were volunteer soldiers organized by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. The Inte
Robert Hale Merriman
…student who fought with the Republican forces in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades. Merriman was born in Eureka, California, the son of a lumberjack. He grew up in Santa Cruz, and attended Santa Cruz High School, where he managed the…
A unit of the Bulgarian International Brigade, 1937
POW brigadiers in Cardeña give the fascist salute, October 1938
Bronze plaque honoring the British soldiers of the International Brigades who died defending the Spanish Republic at the monument on Hill 705, Serra de Pàndols.
Erich Mielke, most powerful DDR combatant