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=== United Kingdom === On disbandment, 305 British volunteers left Spain to return home.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism]] |first1=Richard |last1=Baxell |author-link=Richard Baxell |date=6 September 2012 |publisher=Aurum Press Limited |type=Hardcover |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/unlikelywarriors0000baxe/page/400 400] |isbn=978-1-84513-697-0 }}</ref> They arrived at [[London Victoria station|Victoria Station]] in central London on 7 December and were met warmly as returning heroes by a crowd of supporters including [[Clement Attlee]], [[Stafford Cripps]], [[Willie Gallacher (politician)|Willie Gallacher]], [[Ellen Wilkinson]] and [[Will Lawther]].<ref>{{Citation |title=UK: WAR: INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE RETURN FROM FIGHTING IN SPAIN (1938) | date=12 November 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-nhQ6jt2Q |access-date=2023-08-09 |language=en |archive-date=10 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810202238/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-nhQ6jt2Q&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> The last surviving British member of the International Brigades, Geoffrey Servante, died in April 2019 aged 99.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/content/farewell-geoffrey-servante-our-last-man-standing|title=Farewell to Geoffrey Servante, our last man standing β International Brigade Memorial Trust|website=www.international-brigades.org.uk|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801230510/http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/content/farewell-geoffrey-servante-our-last-man-standing|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==== IBMT ==== {{See also|International Brigade Memorial Trust}} The [[International Brigade Memorial Trust]] is a registered charity that handles activities around the memory of volunteers from Britain and Ireland. The group maintains a map of memorials to volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and organises yearly events to commemorate the war.<ref>{{cite web | title=Map of memorials | website=International Brigade Memorial Trust | date=2022-09-09 | url=https://international-brigades.org.uk/uncategorized/map-of-memorials/}}</ref>
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