Lady Paget ...
Unfortunately, few people have heard of this great woman. She was an English noblewoman and a humane Serbian philanthropist who treated the Serbian army in the Balkan Wars and the First World War. She turned her home in London into a haven for Serb political refugees. She helped the Serbian Church and the Serbian Club in London financially with the arrangement.
Lejdi Pedzet...
Za ovu veliku zenu, malo ljudi je na zalost culo. Ona je bila engleska plemkinja i humana srpska dobrotvorka koja je u Balkanskim ratovima i Prvom svetskom ratu lecila srpsku vojsku. Svoj dom u Londonu pretvorila je u utociste za srpske politicke izbeglice. Srpskoj crkvi i Srpski kulb u Londonu pomogla je novcano oko uredjenja.
She came to Belgrade with her husband, who was the British representative in Serbia. During her stay in Serbia, she fell in love with Serbs. This English lady discovered her humane side during the Balkan wars. Together with English doctors, she founded a military hospital in Belgrade and dedicated herself to treating the Serbian army as a volunteer nurse.
At the beginning of the Great War, Lady Paget was in London. And if she was safe there, she could not just sit while "her Serbs were at war." Despite the advice of her husband and her father not to leave London, she was already sent to Skopje in November with a large British medical mission, via Thessaloniki.
U Beograd je dosla sa svojim suprugom koji je bio britanski predstavnik u Srbiji. Tokom boravka u Srbiji zavlolela je Srbe. Svoju humanu stranu ova engleska dama otkrila je tokom Balkanskih ratova. Sa engleskim lekarima osnovala je vojnu bolnicu u Beogradu i posvetila se lecenju srpske vojske kao dobrovoljna bolnicarka.
Za vreme pocetka Velikog rata Lejdi Pedzet bila je u Londonu. I ako je tu bila bezbedna, nije mogla samo da sedi dok su "njeni srbi ratovali". Bez obzira na savete supruga i njenog oca da ne napusta London, ona je vec u novembru sa velikom britanskom sanitetskom misijom, preko Soluna, posla ka Skoplju.
She devotedly helped the soldiers in the Skopje hospital when Typhus took over, and soon she herself fell ill with this vicious disease. After hard days of fighting, Lady overcame her illness and went to Switzerland to recover in May.
Already in July, she returned to Skopje, where she again managed the hospital and did something that Serbia will remember forever. The Serbian army set out to retreat through Albania, and Lady Paget, despite advice to retreat, remained with the wounded who could not be evacuated.
Pozrtvovano je pomagala vojnicima u skopskoj bolnici kada je zavladao Tifus i ubrzo je i ona sama obolela od ove opake bolesti. Nakon teskih dana borbe, Lejdi je pobedila bolest i u maju mesecu otisla na oporavak u Svajcarsku.
Vec u julu mesecu se vratila u Skoplje gde je opet upravljala bolnicom i uradila nesto sto ce Srbija zauvek pamtiti. Srpska vojska je krenula u povlacenje preko Albanije, a Lejdi Pedzet je bez obzira na savete da odstupi ostala uz ranjenike koji nisu mogli da se evakuisu.
The fearless Lady remained in Skopje even though it was occupied by the Bulgarians, until the last of the wounded left the Skopje military hospital. After that, she returned to England, but before leaving she felt the need to say goodbye to her Serbs in a letter published on the front page of "Politika", in which, among other things, she said:
"I have always had warm sympathies for Serbia and the Serbian people, and there was a special bond between me and him, which made me think of them even when I gave them away with love, a bond that made me always come to Serbia with with the same joy with which I went to my homeland. Once again, I sincerely and sincerely thank everyone and see you soon. "
She lived peacefully on her estate not far from London, raising birds and flowers until that peace was disturbed by World War II. The lady opened a hospital in her house, and when the work was over, her home became a refuge for Serb political refugees.
Towards the end of her life, the fearless Lady had only one fear, and that was that her Serbs would not forget her. "Let everyone forget me! I don't care! But it will be hard for me if my Serbs forget me"
Neustrasiva Lejdi je ostala u Skoplju iako je bilo okupirano od strane Bugara, sve dok poslednji ranjenih nije napustio skopsku vojnu bolnicu. Nakon toga vratila se u Englesku, ali je pre odlaska osetila potrebu da se oprosti sa svojim Srbima pismom koje je bilo objavljeno na prvoj strani "Politike", u kome, izmedju ostalog, kaze:
"Od uvek sam za Srbiju i srpski narod imala tople simpatije i izmedju mene i njega je postojala neka narocita veza, koja je cinila da i kada sam od njih daleo s ljubavlju mislim na njih, veza koja je cinila da sam u Srbiju dolazila uvek s onom istom radoscu s kojom i u svoju otadzbinu. Jos jednom iskreno i od srca hvala svima i do skorog vidjenja."
Na svom imanju nedaleko od Londona zivela je mirno uzgajajuci ptice i cvece sve dok taj mir nije pomutio Drugi svetski rad. Lejdi je u vojoj kuci otvorila bolnicu, a kada se rad zavrsio, njen dom posto je utociste srpskih politickih izbeglica.
Pred kraj zivota neustrasiva Lejdi imala je samo jedan strah, a to je da je njeni Srbi ne zaborave. "Neka me svi zaborave! To mi je svejedno! Ali ce mi tesko pasti ako me moji Srbi zaborave"
She was awarded the highest Order of the Order of the British Empire and the highest decoration of Serbia, the Order of St. Save. Belgrade will forever remember her through the street on Dedinje that bears her name.
Odlikovana je najvisim Ordenom reda Britanske imperije i najvisim odlikovanjem Srbije, Ordenom Sv. Save. Beograd ce je zauvek pamtiti kroz ulicu na Dedinju koja nosi njeno ime.
I hope you enjoyed reading this article. Lady Paget was truly a woman of great heart. Greetings to all of you / Nadam se da ste uzivali citajuci ovaj clanak. Lejdi Pedzet bila je zaista zena velikog srca. Pozdrav za sve vas @Jigglyspy
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