SERVICE IN SPAIN
“THE BOYS WHO WON’T COME BACK”
MEMORIAL IN LONDON.
PARADE OF INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 9.
The “News Chronicle” says that, in order to do honour to the “Boys who won’t come back” numbering 543 out of 2000 who went to Spain with the International Brigade, 412 war-weary men, bearing international flags, marched into the Empress Hall yesterin silence for two minutes in memory day where an audience of 12,000 stood of the dead. After the funeral march and the last post had been sounded, an accordion band played the song, “Jarama Valley,” written to commemorate the longest battle of the war by Alexander McDade, of Glasgow, who was subsequently killed. Father Michael O'Flanagan, who recently returned from Barcelona, declared that if a totalitarian State was hateful, a totalitarian Church was more hateful. The Church had often proved an unreliable political leader.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1939, Page 5
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148SERVICE IN SPAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1939, Page 5
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