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Ronald Welch

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(1909 - 1982)

Ronald Welch (December 14, 1909 – February 5, 1982) was the pen name of British writer Ronald Oliver Felton TD. He took the name from his wartime service in the Welch Regiment. Welch is best known for children’s historical fiction. He won the 1956 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year’s best children’s book by a British subject, for Knight Crusader, the first novel in the so-called Carey Family series.

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Knight Crusader (1954)

The story of a young knight who sees service in Jerusalem during the Crusades and then returns to Wales where he has to fight again, this time for the fiefdom granted him by King Richard.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ronald Welch
Illustrator(s): William Stobbs

Carnegie Medal
Carnegie Medal - 1954

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