 |  | | | Penny Feiwel | 31 Oct 2008 | | |
Seventy years have passed since they marched out of Barcelona amid crowds of weeping, cheering Spaniards, but it is only now that the last few British volunteers who fought against General Franco's fascist-backed rebels are finally to be rewarded by the Spanish state.
The handful of British survivors who joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War is to be granted dual nationality in recognition of their service.
Ninety nine year old Penny Feiwel is one of only seven members of the brigades thought to be still alive and living in Britain. Penny went to Spain purely for humanitarian reasons. She volunteered as a nurse and ended up as an officer running a frontline mobile operating theatre before being injured. Libby Cross went to meet Penny and share her memories of a country and a cause which changed her life.
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