Charity number 1094928

Hampstead Heath

26/07/2015

Memorial bench (beside clump of pines, NNW of Parliament Hill summit) for International Brigaders Danny, Tommy (died Brunete, July 1937) and Joe Gibbons. Unveiled by the Gibbons family, April 1980.

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"The plane slips evenly forward through the dark night. / Just a short flip and we are there. / Yesterday, when we were young, the trip was longer and devious / And our cause lay footsore over the mountains and through the valleys. / Like a gathering storm we came as droplets, mountain streams then raging torrents / And the fury was heard all over the Earth and stirred its sympathy. / Fascism was striding across Europe and the brave Spanish people were breaking the shackles of feudalism. / Guernica was calling for revenge and humanity responded and sent its sons."

From the poem “A Tribute” by Hugh Sloan (Scottish volunteer)

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