East Lancashire men who volunteered to fight fascism in the 1930s Spanish Civil War have been honoured in a new memorial in Burnley. Men from Pendle, Burnley, Rossendale and Hyndburn are featured in ...

The very moving exhibition ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ mounted by the Imperial War Museum from November 2001 until April 2002 reminds us all too appositely of the horrors of warfare. The loss of life ...

Ten years later, at the onset of the Spanish Civil War ... was assigned to be Barsky’s aide and an ambulance driver. For Neugass, two facts of the war were inescapable: Hitler and Mussolini ...

David Smith was a young college student with no military training when he shipped off to Spain to fight in the brutal Spanish Civil War ... driving a truck and an ambulance to transport supplies ...

He says the idea that he picked up the disease during the Spanish Civil War and started showing signs ... so bad that he had to be taken off in an ambulance — terrible hemorrhaging and that ...

However, the Scottish Ambulance Unit was almost as quickly ... sculptor Arthur Dooley to the Scottish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; and in July last year, the 75th anniversary of the ...

The last surviving Scot who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War has died at the age of ... to Spain in 1936 as part of the Scottish ambulance unit. Some 500 Scots joined the ...

Having joined the military in 1911, “Ike” was well acquainted with a type of wagon frequently used as an ambulance. Around the time of the Civil War, such wagons were made in St. Louis by a ...

In his debut novel, “What We Tried to Bury Grows Here,” Zabalbeascoa brings together family lore and mountains of research to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Spanish Civil War ...

They formed ambulance services and worker ... to defend the republican parties. Now the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) joined them. Before the civil war, the PCE had been an insignificant party.