Gladys Aylward
Purves, Carol![Gladys Aylward](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/368/36801913/CHSBZCOP0336801913.jpg)
Wounded by a Japanese bullet as she led nearly a hundred refugee children to safety over the mountains of China, Gladys Aylward's story has been immortalised through the film 'The Inn of the Sixth Happiness' (1958). Born in 1902 in the East End of London, this short, stocky woman was undeterred by criticism as she set off to faraway China where she believed she was called to serve God. When she died in 1970 she was a Chinese citizen and had be...