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Lady Sybil Grey OBE (15 July 1882 – 4 June 1966) was a British philanthropist and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse.
9 de jul. de 2020 · In October 1915 a young English woman left her comfortable life in England to travel to Russia in the middle of the First World War. The young woman was Lady Sybil Grey who happens to have been my grandmother.
Ellen Sophia Taylor (3 January 1860 – 20 August 1939), known professionally as Sybil Grey, was a British singer and actress during the Victorian era best known for creating a series of minor roles in productions by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, including roles in several of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas, from 1880 to 1888.
For the first in a series commemorating World War I and its impact on the region, we look at the inspirational Lady Sybil Grey who transformed Howick Hall in Northumberland into a wartime hospital, then travelled across Europe to help soldiers in need
24 de ene. de 2019 · In the latest instalment of our occasional series profiling remarkable yet unheralded characters from history, Simon Boyd introduces Lady Sybil Grey, an indomitable Englishwoman who, as a nurse in Russia, led a field hospital and had a grandstand view of the February 1917 revolution that toppled the tsar
26 de dic. de 2017 · Lady Sybil: Empire, War and Revolution, is the story of Lady Sybil Grey’s life, movingly told by her grandson, Simon Boyd, using her own words from contemporary letters and diaries. She helped set up and run the hospital in Petrograd, met the Tsarina, was wounded at the front, sheltered the assassin of Rasputin and witnessed the ...
11 de nov. de 2018 · During her time in Russia, Lady Sybil led a field hospital to the front where she was wounded in the face by a hand grenade. After shrapnel hit her in the face, becoming embedded in her skull,...
