sentences:  At the end of three weeks, in particular after a counter-attack on what became known as "Suicide Hill", the death count was high.The British Battalion lost 225 of its 600 men and the Lincoln Battalion lost 125 out of 500.The earliest known version of the lyrics was written by Alex McDade, of the British Battalion, XV International Brigade and published in 1938 in "The Book of the XV International Brigade" by the Commissariat of War, Madrid, 1938.