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Lady Sybil Grey began nursing during World War One at the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) hospital she ran in Howick Hall: her family home in Northumberland. But she then travelled across war-torn Europe to set up and run the Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd for the British Red Cross. During her time in Russia, Lady Sybil met the Russian royal family and survived the revolution of 1917. She was also injured in the face by a fragment from a hand grenade during a visit to a field hospital. In 1919, she spent nearly a year in France leading the Women’s Legion which supplied ambulance drivers to the British Army. Location: Howick, Northumberland NE66 3LB Image shows Lady Sybil (second from the left), courtesy of Howick Archive Report presented by Jo Lonsdale