As a child she conjured up fairies for her siblings in the Sussex woods and was determined never to grow up. At 27 Anna Campbell became the first British woman to die in Syria while fighting alongside Kurdish troops. “To the world she is Anna the martyr or Anna the gun-holding fighter. But she is our sister, she’s our children’s aunt. She was soft and funny and had so much love to give,” says Rayne, 40, the eldest of her siblings.

Source: The Times March 28, 2018 23:03 UTC