Clive Ali Chimmo Branson (1907–1944) was an English

England

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 artist and poet, and an active communist in the 1930s. A number of his paintings are in the Tate Gallery

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He was an active recruiter for the International Brigade, and himself fought in the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

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, being captured at Calceite in April 1938. As a prisoner of war

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 he painted and sketched the camp, at the request of the authorities; some of this work survives.

He married Noreen Browne

Noreen Branson

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 in 1931. He died in action in Burma, where he was a soldier.