My son’s great grandfather was one of those 4,000 Basque children. Number 3227, to be precise:
Owen Sedgwick-Jell
Our archives contain an Attenborough link but not, perhaps, one you might expect...🧵
In the wake of the 1937 bombing of Guernica, nearly 4,000 Basque children were evacuated to Britain, escaping the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. The children were supported by a national network of volunteers...
