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Sculpture for the Hull Volunteers 23 March 2019 RNA IONALE TE S IN D E S L O A I L R I A B T E N R U T L 1936 1939 A D O V ¡NO PASARÁN! International Brigade Memorial Trust l 1-2019 l £5 Sculpture for the Hull volunteers 23 March 2019 IBMT’s annual Len Crome Memorial Conference 11am to 4.30pm Football and theKellogg Spanish College, 60-62 Civil Banbury War Road Oxford OX2 6PN Sid Lowe Live music RNA IONALE Guardian Spanish football correspondent Maddy Carty, Robb Johnson and Na-mara TE S IN D E and author of ‘Fear and Loathing in La Liga: S L O A I L Barcelona vs Real Madrid’ and ‘Catholicism, Tickets R I A B T War and the Foundation of Francoism’ £15 in advance or £20 on the door E N R U T L l Book via Eventbrite: 1936 1939 A D O V Daniel Gray www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/len-crome- Author of ‘Black Boots and Football Pinks: memorial-conference-2019-tickets- 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game’ 48232321171 and ‘Homage to Caledonia: Scotland and l Or send cheques payable to ‘IBMT’ to: International Brigade the Spanish Civil War’ International Brigade Memorial Trust, Memorial Trust 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU www.international-brigades.org.uk Chaired by Professor Sir Paul Preston For travel and accommodation Films information go to the website of the Oxford ‘With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain’ International Brigade Memorial Committee: (1938) and ‘Capitán Republicano’ (2018) www.oxibmcomm.org.uk The IBMT is an organisation which contracts with Kellogg College, the University of Oxford, for the use of facilities, but which has no formal With support from the connection with the university or Kellogg College. Professional Footballers’ Association ¡NO PASARÁN! Magazine of the International Brigade Memorial Trust No.50 l 1-2019 ¡NO PASARÁN! International Brigade Memorial Trust l 1-2019 l £5 t Cover story Plans for a new Cover photo: Marshall Mateer Cover photo: Marshall memorial in Hull were unveiled at the IBMT’s Annual General Meeting: see Sculpture for the Hull volunteers pages 8-9. 3 News FLORAL TRIBUTE: l Including a new memorial for seafarers Sharon Fleming, great niece of John 8 Annual General Meeting Ferguson, leaves l Reports and photos from Hull a wreath and dedication (above) 10 Boadilla del Monte, 1936 next to the new l Rien Dijkstra’s description of the battle memorial plaque. Her sons Aiden 11 Editor’s notes and Ritchie Lawrie l On Emily Thornberry, Max Levitas and more (from left) unveiled the memorial to 12 Political discrimination their great-great l Fraser Raeburn looks at attitudes to the uncle. volunteers during the Second World War 14 Football & the Spanish Civil War l The Real Madrid captain who survived to tell the tale, plus the Clapton CFC phenomenon Lleberia Marsal Jordi 18 Griff Maclaurin l Fresh light on the young mathematician’s life 80 years on: family lays 20 Books & the arts l Another book on the Welsh volunteers their great uncle to rest 22 Ralph Fox memorial now marks the spot where the resident of El Perelló. He found their death l Remembering a giant of the left remains of two Britons have lain certificates in the municipal archives, along with Aanonymously for the past 80 years in a confirmation of their burial. By talking to older ¡No Pasarán! (formerly the IBMT Magazine and the village graveyard in Catalonia. residents of the village he has also identified the IBMT Newsletter) is published three times a year. Unveiled at a ceremony on 23 September, a now abandoned farmhouse that housed the Back numbers can be downloaded from the IBMT plaque in the municipal cemetery of El Perelló clinic where Ferguson and Scott were treated website. All content is the © of the IBMT and records that John Ferguson, a miner from for their fatal injuries. credited contributors and cannot be reproduced Glasgow, and James Scott, a merchant seaman Along with the local mayor and more than without written permission. Views expressed are from Swansea, lie buried there. 80 people from the village, the unveiling was not necessarily those of the IBMT. Both died from injuries sustained during the attended by three generations of members of Battle of the Ebro in the summer of 1938 after John Ferguson’s family from Glasgow: his niece Editor Jim Jump they were taken to a field clinic near El Perelló. Mary Fleming, great niece Sharon Fleming and IBMT, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU They were buried in a mass grave alongside her sons Aiden and Ritchie. The IBMT has 020 7253 8748 some 300 Spanish Republican soldiers and at been unable to trace any members of James [email protected] least five French International Brigaders. Scott’s family. The whereabouts of the remains of these two Paid for by the IBMT, the plaque is in International Brigade Memorial Trust members of the British Battalion were English, Catalan and Spanish. Then IBMT www.international-brigades.org.uk established by Ivan York, an Anglo-American CONTINUED OVERLEAF ¡NO PASARÁN! 3 RNA IONALE TE S IN D NEWS E S L O A I L R I A B ON THE CLYDE: Glasgow’s Pasionaria memorial to the T E N R International Brigades looks down on a commemoration U T L 1936 1939 A D O on 8 September organised by Glasgow Hope Not V Hate. Speakers included IBMT Scotland Secretary Mike Arnott, Frieda Park, grand-daughter of Glasgow volunteer Alex Park, and Reinhardt Silbermann of the KFSR German International Brigades memorial group. The event was The International Brigade followed by a social with live music and poetry at the Memorial Trust keeps alive nearby offices of Unison. the memory and spirit of the men and women who volunteered to fight fascism and defend democracy in Spain from 1936 to 1939 International Brigade Memorial Trust 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU 020 7253 8748 [email protected] www.international-brigades.org.uk Registered charity no.1094928 President Marlene Sidaway [email protected] Laid to rest after 80 years Chair Jim Jump FROM PREVIOUS PAGE were very helpful,’ he explains. ‘The 1938 death [email protected] Secretary (now Chair) Jim Jump told the registry included death certificates for John Secretary Megan Dobney gathering in El Perelló that it was fitting that the Ferguson, dated 26 July 1938, and James Scott – [email protected] memorial’s inauguration should coincide with spelled “Escot” – dated 31 July 1938. Both had Treasurer Manuel Moreno the 80th anniversary of the final day of action by died at Hospital Clinic No.3.’ [email protected] the British Battalion in the Battle of the Ebro. He continues: ‘My next task was to find out Ireland Secretary Manus O’Riordan Ivan York is now pressing the local council to more about the clinic. After talking to local [email protected] raise a memorial with the names of the people I identified a building now used to store Scotland Secretary Mike Arnott Spaniards and other International Brigade tractors and farm implements.’ [email protected] soldiers buried in the cemetery. Among the locals he interviewed three years Wales Secretary Mary Greening His interest dates back to 2012 when he saw a ago was Rosa Safont, 96, one of the volunteer [email protected] map produced by the Spanish ARMH nurses who had worked at the clinic in 1938. Merchandise Officer Chris Hall Association for the Recovery of Historical ‘She could not recall any specific individuals,’ [email protected] Memory, which marked the El Perelló cemetery says York, ‘but did remember soldiers coming Other Executive Committee members as a site of a mass grave. He also discovered that, from the 11th (Lister) Division and also some Pauline Fraser, Alex Gordon, John Haywood, during the Battle of the Ebro, field hospitals from the 15th International Brigade – which Charles Jepson, Alan Lloyd, Dolores Long, Tosh were set up in the nearby Burga valley, which at included the British Battalion. She also McDonald that time came under the administrative described how the dead were wrapped in sheets responsibility of El Perelló. and transported by truck to El Perelló for burial Founding Chair Professor Sir Paul Preston ‘My next stop was the El Perelló ajuntament in the cemetery’s mass grave: the last resting Patrons Professor Peter Crome, (town hall), where the town clerk and the mayor place for Ferguson and Scott.’ Hywel Francis, Professor Helen Graham, Ken Livingstone, Len McCluskey, Christy Moore, Jack O’Connor, Maxine Peake, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, Mick Whelan ∆ Contacts for local International Brigade memorial groups affiliated to the IBMT: HULL Gary Hammond [email protected] OXFORD Colin Carritt s The farm building that housed El Perelló’s [email protected] s Ivan York being interviewed on Catalan TV. Clinic No.3, where Ferguson and Scott died. 4 ¡NO PASARÁN! International Brigade Memorial Trust At last a memorial for seafarers who defied Franco’s blockade of ports memorial to the British permission was granted by Glasgow seafarers who defied fascist City Council in November 2017. A bombs and Franco’s blockade Following the unveiling, which is of Spanish Republican ports during scheduled for 12 noon, there will be the Spanish Civil War is to be unveiled music and entertainment at the in Glasgow on 2 March. Admiral Bar (72a Waterloo Street, The site will be on the Clyde Glasgow G2 7DA). Among the walkway next to Jamaica Street performers booked for the afternoon Bridge and across the river from the are the folk-rock group The Wakes.
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