Ysabel Birkbeck

**Ysabel Hunter** **Birkbeck** (16 ga Yuni, 1890–1973) direban motar asibiti ce ta Burtaniya kuma mai rubuta tarihin yaƙi. Iyayenta su ne Henry Birkbeck, wani ma'aikacin banki da aka haifa a Landan, da kuma Ysabel Birkbeck (née Elwes), mai yin kayan wasa da kuma mai taimakon jama'a. Ysabel ta sami tarbiyya mai kyau, wanda ta ƙi, ta fifita ayyukan fasaha da na yaƙi a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya da na Biyu.

## War service
Birkbeck ta yi aiki tukuru a Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, tana tuka motar asibiti a Rasha tare da Elsie Inglis da asibitinta, wanda ke aiki a Sashen Serbia na Farko .   A watan Disamba na 1915, ta kasance a Rasha a matsayin wani ɓangare na ƙoƙarin haɗin kai da gwamnatin Burtaniya ta yi don tallafawa ƙawarsu. Ta ƙare a Moldovia,  kuma daga ƙarshe ta kasance cikin masu aikin sa kai na Asibitocin Mata na Scotland don Ayyukan Ƙasashen Waje waɗanda suka yi aiki don samar da kayan aikinsu a ƙetaren Kogin Danube kusa da Tulcea tare da tallafi daga ƙungiyar British Armoured Car.  Ta kasance a fagen daga na Romania daga 1916 zuwa 1917. 

Ta kuma kasance cikin waɗanda suka yi hijira daga Dobruja . A lokacin wannan hutun, Birkbeck da sauran membobin Asibitin Mata na Scotland ba su da komai illa tufafin da suke sanye da su.  A cikin littafin tarihin rayuwarta, ta ce ganin azabar da sojojin suka sha a lokacin da aka kwashe su, wani abin tunawa ne da zai kasance tare da ita har tsawon rayuwarta. 

A wannan lokacin, ta yi wa sojojin Serbia da na Rasha magani yayin da take kusa da layin gaba. A wani lokaci, an kama ta a tsakiyar wani hari na sama kusa da Medigidia . Lamarin ya sa motar daukar marasa lafiya ta fashe. Yayin da ta fita don gyara ta, fasinjojinta uku suka gudu don neman mafaka. 

Tana ƙoƙarin komawa Ingila a watan Maris na 1917 yayin da take aiki a matsayin mai kula da gida kusa da Petrograd .   Yayin da take ƙoƙarin tafiya, ta shiga cikin tarzomar abinci .  Ta ƙare a cikin wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar a lokacin wani yajin aiki na gama gari wanda Cossacks da 'yan sanda suka harba.  Sojoji ma sun mamaye otal ɗinta. Tana can lokacin da sabuwar gwamnati ta bayar da sanarwar ranar 14 ga Maris, 1917, inda ta umarci kowa ya koma bakin aiki. Birbeck ta bayyana mamaki da tasirin wannan umarni.  Tana tattaunawa a cikin littattafan tarihinta lokacinta ya makale a Petrograd, ta nuna goyon baya ga wasu ra'ayoyin Juyin Juya Halin Fabrairu a matsayin wata rundunar ' yantar da kai a Rasha. 

## Littafin tarihin rayuwa
Asalin rubuce-rubucen Birbeck an rubuta su ne da fensir. Saboda rashin samun tawada akai-akai yayin da take hidima kusa da layin gaba, za ta yi bayani kan yadda ta sami damar samun tawada lokacin da take rubutu a ciki. Haka kuma ana rubuta littattafanta a kan tarkacen takarda, shafuka da aka tsage daga littattafan rubutu da sauran hanyoyin takarda marasa tsari. 

Ana iya karanta labarin aikinta na tukin motar asibiti a cikin littafin Forgotten Heroines, littafin tarihinta mai zane da aka buga. Ta rubuta yadda aka san ƙungiyar mata, waɗanda suka yi tafiya daga Liverpool a ƙarshen 1916, da The Buffs. Galibinsu 'ya'ya mata ƙanana ne daga iyalai masu arziki, suna aske gashinsu kuma suna sanya rigunan sanyi don fuskantar haɗari da farin ciki a Gabashin Gabas . [1] [2] Littafin tarihinta kuma yana ba da labarin Busta House, gidan ɗaya daga cikin 'yan kasuwa mafi wadata a Tsibirin Shetland . [2]

*Ysabel Birkbeck: littattafan tarihi game da tafiyarta zuwa Ceylon, China da Japan 1909* ana gudanar da su a ɗakin karatu na Jami'ar Durham, Taskar Tarihi da Tarin Musamman: Sashen Kore na Fadar.  *littattafan tarihi game da tafiya zuwa Japan 1909 da kuma a Afirka 1926-27* ana gudanar da su a wuri ɗaya.  Lavinia Murray ta ƙirƙiri wani gajeren jerin wasan kwaikwayo bisa ga littattafan tarihi na Birbeck.  

## Na Kai
An haifi Birkbeck a ranar 16 ga Yuni 1890.  Ysabel da mijinta sun rabu kuma sun sake haɗuwa a farkon shekarun 1930, duk da haka sun yi aiki tare a sansanonin 'yan gudun hijira da aka kafa wa yaran Basque a lokacin Yaƙin Basasa na Spain .  Mijinta ya yi aiki a matsayin mai gudanarwa a Sudan. 

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