Carlisle, United Kingdom, June 19, 2026 (AFP) - How Spanish Civil War child, now 97, fled Franco for new life in UK

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Carmen Cid was just eight when in 1937 she boarded a ship with 4,000 other children bound for Britain to escape the Spanish Civil War. She was among those who never returned home. "We thought we were going on holiday," the now 97-year-old told AFP. Travelling with her sister Edurne, 11, and her brother Jose Luis, 10, they left their home in Bilbao, in Spain's northern Basque region, onboard the SS Habana for Southampton, England. "My mother took......

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