Anthony Carritt (1914–1937) was a British left-wing activist and a member of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.

[1] Anthony Carritt was assumed to have been killed in an airstrike after he went missing during the Battle of Brunete and was never found despite his brother spending days searching for him.

He is also believed to have been the biological son of famous British evolutionary biologist Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire, despite being raised as a brother of the Carritt family.

[4] The Carritt family became famous for being a hub for socialist revolutionaries and communists, such as Abraham Lazarus, Labour politicians including Dick Crossman, and poets such as WH Auden.

[1][7] Their mother Winifred Carritt also became a leading supporter of Oxford's Spanish charity campaigns,[7] and their brother Gabriel Carriitt headed a British Youth Movement delegation to Spain.

[9] After his ambulance was towed back to a hospital in Escorial, Noel realised that his brother Anthony had gone missing during the battle.

To mark Anthony's departure to Spain, his friend the communist and future SOE officer Frank Thompson wrote a poem in his memory:A year ago, in a drowsy vicarage garden We talked about politics; you with your tawny hair Flamboyant, flaunting your red tie, unburdened Yours burning heart of the dirge we always hear - The rich triumphant and the poor oppress'd.