Geoffrey Servante, almost certainly the last surviving British member of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War passed away last Sunday at the age of 99. He spent his last days at the nursing home in Drybrook. Born in may 1919, Geoffrey Servante was one of the 2,500 British volunteers who joined the International
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