Helvecia Hidalgo

From The Guardian
"My mother, Helvecia Hidalgo, who has died aged 91, was one of 3,800 children evacuated to the UK from northern Spain after the bombing of Guernica by fascists during the Spanish civil war in April 1937.
At the age of 14 she boarded the liner Habana with her 10-year-old brother Elvio and eight-year-old sister Delia. After the ship docked in Southampton the children were initially looked after by the Salvation Army at a camp in Eastleigh, where they slept 10 to a tent. The British government would not help the evacuees on the basis that such a move might compromise its policy of non-intervention in the war. But fundraising committees were set up and the public offered generous practical and financial support to the children.
Many of those who had been evacuated returned to Spain after the civil war, but others stayed on to live in Britain. Helvecia's father, Hermenegildo García López, who was involved in one of the first co-operatives in Spain, had died at a young age. Her socialist mother, Martina Aldassoro Urreta, living in terrible poverty near Bilbao and struggling to look after other, older children who had remained in Spain, agreed that it would be better for the younger ones to continue living in Britain away from the potentially hostile attentions of the Franco government.
Helvecia and her siblings were therefore taken under the wing of George and Barbara Cadbury, of the chocolate-making Quaker family, who became the children's legal guardians, sent them as boarders to theFriends' school in Saffron Walden, and gave them a home during the school holidays near Bournville, Birmingham."
http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/jul/24/helvecia-hidalgo-obituary