Alguien desde atrás gritó: "¡Qué horror!". Me volví para ver a Lewis tambalearse y caer. De repente sentí que algo me salpicaba el antebrazo y, al mirar, me sorprendió ver que eran manchas de sangre. Era un día caluroso y soleado y, como de costumbre, yo estaba remangado. Lewis Clive reapareció preguntando por la actividad en las líneas fascistas. The quote from George Wheeler's Spanish and English versions I translated the book into Spanish in 2005.Įmail 3. I am sorry I do not have the English original at hand. George gives no description of David Guest´s death. I have learnt from quite reliable sources that George´s remark about Lewis being a descendent of Clive of India is inaccurate. George was right by Lewis when the latter was shot. On Lewis Clive´s death I quote below an excerpt of the Spanish translation of George Wheeler´s "To make the people smile again". I believe that there is a barrack room rumour that either David Guest and/or Lewis Clive might have been shot by Maurice Ryan's machine gun during the assault on Hill 481? John Dunlop mentions the tragedy in his Imperial War Museum sound archives (IWMSA 10) and it is referenced in Richard Baxell's "British Volunteers in the SCW" (2007), p 145.ĭoes anyone else have any further information about this incident of friendly fire? I've added an extract from an interview I did with Eugene Downing in which he talks about Ryan, see below. I thought I would it add it to the site as Ryan was an Irish volunteer in the SCW and Manus O’Riordan is a well qualified researcher on the subject with specific knowledge of these developments. The following discussion took place in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Forum, 17th July 2008 concerning the deaths of 3 named volunteers in Spain. The Spanish Civil War deaths of Maurice Ryan, The Spanish Civil War deaths of Maurice Ryan, Lewis Clive and Max Nash.
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