Countries  |  Spain

J. Fisher

Hammersmith and Fulham International Brigade volunteer.

Person, Spain

Phillippo Nepumeceno Fontanae

Ambassador from the court of Sardinia to that of Spain.

Person, Politics & Administration, Italy, Spain

Juan Pujol Garcia, MBE

Spy. Born in Barcelona. Pujol was managing a poultry farm when the Spanish civil war caused him to develop a loathing of all fascist regimes so, at the outbreak of WW2, he was determined to make a ...

Person, Espionage, Portugal, Spain, Venezuela

Ava Gardner

Actor. Born near Smithfield, North Carolina, USA. Married: Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra (divorced 1957). This last was a famously stormy and passionate romance. Aged 33 moved to Madrid,...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Spain, USA

L. Gibson

Hammersmith and Fulham International Brigade volunteer.

Person, Spain

A. Grant

Hammersmith and Fulham International Brigade volunteer.

Person, Spain

Robert Graves

Poet and novelist. Born Robert von Ranke Graves at Red Branch House, Lauriston Road, Wimbledon. Professor of English at Cairo and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His early poetry included 'Over the ...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Egypt, Spain

R. Hone

Hammersmith and Fulham International Brigade volunteer.

Person, Spain

C. Hutchison

Person, Spain

International Brigades

A military uprising in Spain in July 1936 was assisted by Hitler and Mussolini. The elected Spanish Republican government pleaded for help from France and Britain but, as part of the appeasement ph...

Group, Armed Forces, Spain