MAERDY


- Arnold Owen organised this tribute to his brother Frank Owen International Brigader. -



International Brigade Maerdy Bridge




The memorial plaque is on the Maerdy Bridge, Community Woodland Project

and it was unveiled in 2000 by Lance Rogers, also International Brigader.








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International Brigade Maerdy 2


You are history. You are legend... We shall nor forget you


This Bridge is dedicated to the memory of Frank Owen of Pentre Road Maerdy, killed in action at Brunete in July 1937 fighting fascism with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.


No pasarán



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* Acknowledgements for the photographs to Mr Peter Parker, Howard Badham and Mrs Margaret Jenkins





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