Richard Harry Graves

Richard Harry Graves (17 July 1898 - 3 February 1971) was an Irish-born Australian poet and novelist.

Life
In World War II Graves founded and led the Australian Jungle Rescue Detachment]] of 60 soldiers, which was attached to the Far East American Airforce. These men conducted over 300 rescues, all of which were completed successfully and without losses. After the war he ran a bushcraft school for over twenty years.

Aside from poetry and adventure novels for children, he wrote ten classic books on camping and bushcraft, now published in a single volume. He was a cousin of the English writer Robert Graves.