"I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me."

“They have all been very kind to me here. But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”

“About the Brussels hospital”

“Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.”

“Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum-Edith Cavell”

“A German soldier executed for allegedly refusing to fire at Edith Cavell's execution”

“The Heroine who humbled me": extract from the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown's book Courage Eight Portraits”