Edith Cavell
Edith Louisa Cavell was a British nurse. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Cavell was arrested, court-martialled under German military law, and sentenced to death by firing squad.
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- Born in
- Swardeston
- Educated at
- Norwich High School for Girls
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Trending topics shown first"I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy."
"A German soldier executed for allegedly refusing to fire at Edith Cavell's execution"
"Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy."
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1865
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Birth1915
Died
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