‘Last international brigader’, survivor of Spanish civil war, dies aged 101

Tributes paid to Josep Almudever, who was forced to watch his comrades shot in Franco's camps

The man believed to be the last surviving member of the 35,000 International Brigades volunteers who travelled to Spain to fight against Franco's fascist rebellion has died in France at the age of 101.

Josep Eduardo Almudever Mateu, who was born on 30 July 1919 in Marseille to Spanish parents, was 16 and living in the Valencian town of Alcasser when Franco's coup triggered the Spanish civil war.