A gypsy and a rebel : Lillian Urmston in the Spanish Civil War.

"At the age of nineteen, Lillian Urmston volunteered her services as a nurse in the Spanish Civil War, because she believed it was ‘the right thing to do’. While her lack of political affiliation and her rebellious attitude inevitably attracted suspicion from some of her more ideological peers, through her clinical work she earned the respect of some of the leading battlefield physicians of the day, including Dr Len Crome, Chief Medical Officer of the 35th Army Corps and Dr Reggie Saxton, a pioneer in the field of blood transfusion. Later, the civil and military authorities in Britain would draw on her practical expertise in the latest developments in trauma care as they made their preparations for the Second World War. This new biography by Linda Palfreeman and Alicia García López brings alive Lillian’s experience of working in a succession of front line field hospitals in Spain as well as drumming up support for the Republic during her periods of leave back home in Britain."--Provided by publisher.