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Edith Louisa Cavell (/ ˈ k æ v əl / KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) 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.
Edith Cavell (born December 4, 1865, Swardeston, Norfolk, England—died October 12, 1915, Brussels, Belgium) was an English nurse who became a popular heroine of World War I and was executed for assisting Allied soldiers in escaping from German-occupied Belgium.
On the morning of October 12, 1915, the 49-year-old British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels, Belgium. Before World War I began in 1914, Cavell served for a...
Edith Cavell (1865-1915) was a British nurse, working in German-occupied Belgium during the First World War. She helped hundreds of British, French and Belgian soldiers escape the Germans and was arrested, tried and executed in 1915.
Edith Cavell’s Life & Legacy. Here we present an account of Edith Cavell’s life, death and lasting significance. The text is from a booklet published for Swardeston Church back in the late 1990s compiled and written by the then vicar, Rev Phillip Mcfadyen. The booklet is still available in church.
Edith Cavell was a British nurse who is remembered for helping injured soldiers of all nationalities during World War One. Edith saved the lives of soldiers from all sides without distinction....
A pioneering nurse, Edith Cavell was shot by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium during the First World War, but that didn't end her influence on the conflict
Edith Cavell was a British nurse during the First World War. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides and in helping over 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium.
At 7 o’clock in the morning on 12 October 1915, a Red Cross nurse, Edith Cavell, was killed by a firing squad. She was shot by 16 German soldiers. Her crime? Helping the Allied servicemen she was treating escape to safety. Who was Edith Cavell? Born in Norfolk in December 1865, Edith Cavell was the eldest of four children.
The prisoner, an obscure 49-year-old English nurse named Edith Cavell, was led to the firing range posts at 7:00 am on October 12, 1915, in Brussels, Belgium.