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Tower Hamlets

Plaque to local volunteers on front of the Old Town Hall, Cable Street, E1.

Today's quote

"Looking back on those days it was terrible: the spectacle of seeing refugees pouring over the frontier, wounded carrying wounded, mothers carrying children, some of them already dead, and the utter despair on the part of thousands of refugees who were being pursued by the advancing fascist army."

Lou Kenton, volunteer ambulance driver from London’s East End, arriving at the Franco-Spanish border in January 1939

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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

Historical Consultant:
Richard Baxell

Charity number 1094928

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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:

"The men who fought and those who died for the [Spanish] Republic, whatever their nationality and whether they were communists, anarchists, socialists, poets, plumbers, middle class professional men, or the one Abyssinian prince, were brave and disinterested, as there were no rewards in Spain. They were fighting for us all, against the combined force of European fascism. They deserved our thanks and our respect and got neither."

Martha Gellhorn

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