Nan Green (19 November 1904 - 6 April 1984), was a British communist who in October 1936 volunteered to join her husband George on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
She worked in several hospitals as a medical administrator and collator of statistics during the war and after it continued to support veterans of the International Brigade.
[1] Born Nancy Farrow in Beeston, Nottingham, Nan married George Green, a musician, on 9 November 1929.
Her experiences, including forthright criticism of the conditions and food, and being a blood donor in the early days of transfusion, are described in a memoir published in 2004.
She managed to visit and write about the women's prison in Madrid, and survived to see Franco's death and the end of the dictatorship in Spain.