couraging the men and keeping them informed daily of the general 
situation. 
On the eve of his departure for home in August 1937, he was 
entertained by his comrades on the Brigade Staff and made the rec- 
ipient of a presentation to commemorate his services to the Brigade 
and to the anti-Fascist cause. 

Major Jock Cunningham 

When Captain Wintringham was wounded at Jarama on February 13, 
1937, his place as Commander of the British Battalion was taken by Jock 
Cunningham. 
Jock first came into prominence in 1929, when he was sentenced to 
five years imprisonment by the British military authorities for leading 
a so-called mutiny among the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, then 
stationed at Jamaica. 
The case aroused considerable interest among British workers and 
as a result of their pressure, Jock’s sentence was reduced to two years, 
and he was transferred from Jamaica to Aldershot military prison in 
England. During his two years in this prison, he went on hunger strike 
on four occasions as a protest against inhuman regulations. 
On his release, he immediately joined the Communist Party and 
from then on, in his native town of Coatbridge, Scotland, and in London, 
did great work in the Party and among the unemployed. In 1933, he 
led the famous unemployed march to Brighton. 
He was one of the first Volunteers to come to Spain, arriving there 
in October 1936. In November and early December he was on the Ma- 
drid Front, in charge of a British Section in the Edgar André Battalion. 
In late December he was with the British Company under Nathan in 
Cordova. In January when Nathan was promoted, Jock commanded 
the Company at Las Rozas. 
On the second day of the Jarama battles, he became Battalion Com- 
mander. Wounded on March 15, in a daring action which he character- 
istically led, he returned to duty in May and was appointed. to the Briga- 
de Staff. Promoted to the rank of Major, he commanded a Sector dur- 
ing the Brunete offensive, and following the death of Major Nathan was 
acting as Chief of Staff. 
Before he returned to England on leave in August 1937 he and George 
Aitken were the recipients of handsome presentations in recognition of 
their services. 
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