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Esmond Romilly. Esmond Marcus David Romilly (10 June 1918 – 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following the outbreak of the Second World War, an observer with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
- Julia Decca Romilly (1937-1938), Constancia Romilly
- Jessica Mitford
- Journalist, political activist, soldier
David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale. Sydney Bowles. Family. Mitford. Jessica Lucy " Decca " Treuhaft ( née Freeman-Mitford, later Romilly; 11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics. Jessica married her second cousin Esmond Romilly ...
Esmond’s bravery and pluck and Jessica’s ebullience and wit make them riveting subjects. Yet the real heroines of Whitford’s book are their mothers, Sydney Redesdale and Nellie Romilly, the ...
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Esmond Marcus David Romilly was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following the outbreak of the Second World War, an observer with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He is perhaps best remembered for his teenage elopement with his distant cousin Jessica Mitford, the second ...
Sep 25, 2014 · The Mitfords: Six sisters who captured the maelstrom. Published. 25 September 2014. Share. close panel. Share page. ... Esmond Romilly, she ran off to fight the fascists during the Spanish Civil ...
Esmond Romilly, the 17 year old nephew of Winston Churchill and author of a 'vivid and outstanding' account of his time with the Thaelmann Battalion. During November 1936, the British group in the Thaelmann Battalion was involved in a number of small skirmishes to the south of Madrid, as the rebels continued their advance on the Spanish capital.
Esmond Romilly. Esmond Romilly, the nephew of Winston Churchill, was born in 1918. Educated at Wellington College he caused a stir when he declared he was a pacifist and with his brother, Giles Romilly, refused to join the Officer Training Corps. The brothers also distributed communist leaflets in the school and began publishing a left-wing ...
