Skip to main content

Charity number 1094928

Home
About
Events
- Newsletters
Memorials
The volunteers
Merchandise
Magazine
- Magazines - pre 2012
- Magazines - 2012 onwards
Education
Membership
News
Videos
Contact

You are here

Aberdeen

Plaque dedicated to local International Brigader Bob Cooney (1908-1984) in Castle Street. Erected by Aberdeen City Council

Today's quote

"But when I shook hands to leave, an Anarchist worker / Said: 'Tell the workers of England / This was a war not of our own making / We did not seek it. / But if ever the Fascists again rule Barcelona / It will be as a heap of ruins with us workers beneath it.'"

From the poem “A Letter from Aragon” by John Cornford (English volunteer)

Search form

Search

Twitter

Tweets by @IBMT_SCW

Patrons:

Professor Peter Crome
Hywel Francis
Professor Helen Graham
Ken Livingstone
Len McCluskey
Christy Moore
Jack O’Connor
Maxine Peake
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Mick Whelan

Founding Chair:
Professor Sir Paul Preston

Charity number 1094928

Terms and conditions

Find an International Brigader

We have biographical information on nearly 2,400 International Brigade volunteers from Britain and Ireland. To find an individual volunteer, follow this link.

Today's quote:

"It was not until I served with the British Medical Unit in Spain that I learned the true meaning of the word comradeship. For the last few months I was with a mobile unit on the Aragon and Teruel Front… We were bombed and machine-gunned from the air; we were continually bring forced to retreat… we had no means of heating in the bitter cold of the winter; we had to deal with as many as 200 cases a night, and we sometimes worked in the most appalling conditions for 40 hours at a stretch."

Phyllis Hibbert (volunteer nurse)

Support the IBMT:

You can support the IBMT by joining us or affiliating your union branch – see details and membership forms here: Join the IBMT

Affiliated trade unions:
ASLEF, CWU, EIS, FBU, NUM, PFA, POA, RMT, TSSA, UCU, Unite

Copyright © International Brigade Memorial Trust

Site by Web Nation

drupal statistics