"RALPH FOX was born in Halifax in 1900. He came from a comfortable middle-class home. He received the education and upbringing of his class, finishing at Oxford. The choice of a life of letters, of aloof culture, for which Ralph had all the intellectual capacity, seemed to open before him. Instead, in 1920, he went to the most hard-hit famine area of the Soviet Union. Instead he joined the Communist Party. Instead of mellowing gradually into a Literary Editor he died at 36 fighting the forces of Fascism in Spain. And as Harold Laski has written, his death was, "a fulfilment. It was, for him, simply a necessary service to his ideal." Fox, in his combination of qualities, his devotion to the Communist Party and his intellectual ardour, was able to foreshadow the alliance between mental and manual worker in, the fight against Fascism and war, the destroyers of culture." quoted from "Marxists Internet Archive" by Harry Pollitt : "Ralph Fox, A Tribute."
He was killed in uncertain circumstances at Lopera, near Córdoba, Spain in the Spanish Civil War. The Hill near Lopera where he and John Cornford were killed is still called by the locals "The English Hill", ie in Spanish: 'la colina Inglés'.
From the Roll of Honour Spanish Civil War database the following:
FOX, Ralph
Brigade ID: No 1 Company, XVth Brigade
Starting Location Reference: Halifax
Date fo Death: 28 December 1936
Place of Death: lopera, Córdoba
Manner of death: Killed when making a personal
reconnaissance near Lopera village
Occupation: Journalist, writer and later political
commissar in Spain, Assistant
Commissar in the Albacete Base.
Resident: London
He was killed in uncertain circumstances at Lopera, near Córdoba, Spain in the Spanish Civil War. The Hill near Lopera where he and John Cornford were killed is still called by the locals "The English Hill", ie in Spanish: 'la colina Inglés'.
From the Roll of Honour Spanish Civil War database the following:
FOX, Ralph
Brigade ID: No 1 Company, XVth Brigade
Starting Location Reference: Halifax
Date fo Death: 28 December 1936
Place of Death: lopera, Córdoba
Manner of death: Killed when making a personal
reconnaissance near Lopera village
Occupation: Journalist, writer and later political
commissar in Spain, Assistant
Commissar in the Albacete Base.
Resident: London
"RALPH FOX was born in Halifax in 1900. He came from a comfortable middle-class home. He received the education and upbringing of his class, finishing at Oxford. The choice of a life of letters, of aloof culture, for which Ralph had all the intellectual capacity, seemed to open before him. Instead, in 1920, he went to the most hard-hit famine area of the Soviet Union. Instead he joined the Communist Party. Instead of mellowing gradually into a Literary Editor he died at 36 fighting the forces of Fascism in Spain. And as Harold Laski has written, his death was, "a fulfilment. It was, for him, simply a necessary service to his ideal." Fox, in his combination of qualities, his devotion to the Communist Party and his intellectual ardour, was able to foreshadow the alliance between mental and manual worker in, the fight against Fascism and war, the destroyers of culture." quoted from "Marxists Internet Archive" by Harry Pollitt : "Ralph Fox, A Tribute."
He was killed in uncertain circumstances at Lopera, near Córdoba, Spain in the Spanish Civil War. The Hill near Lopera where he and John Cornford were killed is still called by the locals "The English Hill", ie in Spanish: 'la colina Inglés'.
From the Roll of Honour Spanish Civil War database the following:
FOX, Ralph
Brigade ID: No 1 Company, XVth Brigade
Starting Location Reference: Halifax
Date fo Death: 28 December 1936
Place of Death: lopera, Córdoba
Manner of death: Killed when making a personal
reconnaissance near Lopera village
Occupation: Journalist, writer and later political
commissar in Spain, Assistant
Commissar in the Albacete Base.
Resident: London
He was killed in uncertain circumstances at Lopera, near Córdoba, Spain in the Spanish Civil War. The Hill near Lopera where he and John Cornford were killed is still called by the locals "The English Hill", ie in Spanish: 'la colina Inglés'.
From the Roll of Honour Spanish Civil War database the following:
FOX, Ralph
Brigade ID: No 1 Company, XVth Brigade
Starting Location Reference: Halifax
Date fo Death: 28 December 1936
Place of Death: lopera, Córdoba
Manner of death: Killed when making a personal
reconnaissance near Lopera village
Occupation: Journalist, writer and later political
commissar in Spain, Assistant
Commissar in the Albacete Base.
Resident: London
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