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Rotherham

Memorial seat and stone obelisk in Peace Garden, on corner of Wharncliffe Street and Doncaster Road to Tommy James. Erected by Rotherham Community College and Wortley Hall, April 1985 and February 1986.
Region: northeast

Rotherham

Blue plaque to International Brigader and trade unionist Tommy James (1898-1971). Located in All Saints Square, Rotherham. Unveiled on 17 September 2020 by Rotherham District Civic Society.
Region: northeast

Roughlee

 Plaque dedicated to the members of the Independent Labour Party and the Clarion cycling clubs who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Mounted at Clarion House, near the village of Roughlee in Lancashire. Paid for and installed by the National Clarion Cycling Club 1895.
Region: northwest

Rutherglen

Memorial in town hall. Unveiled 6 February 2008.
Region: scotland

Salford

Plaque in Working Class Movement Library to Independent Labour Party volunteers. Unveiled 30 May 2009.
Region: northwest

Sheffield

Plaque in Peace Gardens, next to town hall, naming 16 South Yorkshire volunteers, including six killed in Spain. Erected by Sheffield City Council, summer 1986.
Region: northeast

Sheffield

Statue created by artist Anthony Padgett depicting a young Picasso holding a dove of peace. The statue is a tribute to peace, to Picasso (who attended the 2nd World Peace Congress in Sheffield in 1950), to the International Brigade volunteers from South Yorkshire, to the Basque children who were given sanctuary by the people of Sheffield, and to all Sheffield’s workers and citizens. Unveiled in Weston Park (Sheffield S10 2TP) on 12 April 2025 by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield Jayne Dunn.
Region: northeast

South Bank

National memorial and sculpture by Ian Walters in Jubilee Gardens, SE1, to the 526 killed in Spanish Civil War who went to Spain from Britain and Ireland. Erected by Greater London Council and International Brigade Association and unveiled by Michael Foot MP, 5 October 1985. Moved to new site in the park in April 2012. Plaque in front of memorial unveiled by David Lomon, 7 July 2012.
Region: london

Southampton

Plaque located in a flower bed, behind railings directly in front of the Cenotaph in the City Centre, in the park opposite the Civic Centre
Region: southeast

Southwark

Plaque naming local volunteers in John Harvard Library, 211 Borough High Street, SE1 1JA. Unveiled there on 25 October 2016. Originally unveiled in Mayor’s Parlour, Town Hall, Peckham Road, SE5, on 1 November 1986. Erected by Southwark Borough Council.
Region: london

St Albans

Bronze statue of Scottish Ambulance Unit volunteer Thomas Watters, who settled in St Albans after the Spanish Civil War. Donated to Museum of St Albans, Hatfield Road, AL1 3RR, by sculptor Frank Casey and IBMT 15 November 2014.
Region: southeast

St Helens

Memorial in St Helens Town Hall, Victoria Square​, Bickerstaffe Street​, St Helens​, WA10 1HP, to the volunteers from St Helens. Erected by St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, 1 November 1987.
Region: northwest

St Helens

Donated by Seve Gomez-Aspron MBE the plaque is installed directly below the original memorial to the St Helens volunteer,s in the reception lobby of St Helens Town Hall. Victoria Square​, Bickerstaffe Street​, St Helens​, WA10 1HP​.
Region: northwest

Stalybridge

Plaque to Lilian Urmston at St Peter's CoE Primary School, Huddersfield Rd, Tameside in Greater Manchester. SK15 2PT. Erected by Tameside Borough Council, 2008.
Region: northwest

Stockton

Memorial and plaque dedicated to the eight International Brigaders from Stockton-on-Tees: George Bright, William Carson, Wilfred Cowan, Otto Estensen, Myles Harding, Johnny Longstaff, Patrick Maroney and Bert Overton. Features a reproduction of Picasso's 'Guernica' with volunteers' names around it. Installed after a fundraising campaign led by John Christie and Stockton supporters and unveiled on 16 September 2022. 1 Wasp Nest Yard, Stockton-on-Tees TS18 1TA.
Region: northeast

Stoke-on-Trent

Memorial to local International Brigader Dave Goodman in cold-pour bronze by Mike Jones in the Potteries Museum in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent (Bethseda Street, ST1 3DW), entitled ‘Symbol of the International Brigade Volunteers’.
Region: midlands

Stoke-on-Trent

Memorial plaque in Town Hall, Glebe Street, to three volunteers killed in Spain. Erected by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, 7 September 1989.
Region: midlands

Swansea

Plaque to the 11 volunteers from Swansea, in Civic Centre, Oystermouth Road. Unveiled 14 December 2011.
Region: wales

Swansea

Welsh national memorial plaque in Miners’ Library, Hendrefoilan House, Gower Road, to 33 volunteers from Wales killed in Spain. Erected by the South Wales Miners’ Federation, 14 January 1976 and unveiled by Will Paynter.
Region: wales

Swindon

Memorial in Whitworth Road Cemetery, Swindon England to Percy Williams.
Region: southwest
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