Spanish Medical Aid Committee ambulance

Spanish Medical Aid Committee ambulance

Ambulance bought by the Dunedin branch of the SMAC for the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish Medical Aid Committee (SMAC), the Communist Party, and a number of trade unions raised enough funds through raffles, exhibitions, film screenings and public talks from civil war veterans to send three nurses – René Shadbolt, Isobel Dodds and Millicent Sharples – directly from New Zealand to Spain.

Money was also raised to buy a field laundry truck and ambulance for the Republican army, as well as medical supplies for the refugee camps established across the French border.

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