Australia’s Spanish Knight: Fourteen months, Sixty one years

Australia’s Spanish Knight is the remarkable story of Richard Bryant who was born in England in 1911 and died in Australia in 2003.Fourteen Months tells of his experiences as an ambulance driver with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.He serves on several battlefronts including Jarama, where he meets two Australian nurses; Brunete, where he is injured; and Teruel and Aragon, where an English nurse, Joan Harrison, accompanies him in the ambulance for more than three months. When she is not attending the wounded, she finds relief in his memories of an unusual childhood and of his world-wide travels in the merchant navy. ppix, 251 #181215