“She would have seen it as a necessary part of their care. If she just handed them over to the Germans they would have been thrown into a camp and left to fend for themselves.”
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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. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German governmen…
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culture · British nurse (1865–1915) · nurse · matron · governess · writer · peace activist · also Edith Cavell, Edith (Louisa) Cavell, Cavell
Born 4 December 1865 · Died 12 October 1915 · Q237564
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2026· 3 entries
“no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”
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Public attention spiked: 4,756 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.3× the usual 574, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
EDP 24: Norwich Cathedral Library Edith Cavell 110 exhibition
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Lest We Forget: Florence Nightingale And Edith Cavell, Two Daughters Of Man O' War
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2023· 1 entry
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2022· 1 entry
Cavell was officially added to the United States Episcopal Church liturgical calendar with a feast day on 12 October
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2018· 1 entry
The Mirror: Who was Edith Cavell? Google Doodle celebrates heroic WW1 nurse
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2015· 4 entries
Work went ahead to restore Cavell's grave in the grounds of Norwich Cathedral after being awarded a £50,000 grant and was completed in 2016
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That she had unearthed documents in Belgian military archives that confirmed an intelligence-gathering aspect to Cavell's network
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By the Royal Mint to mark the centenary of the war
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Was also remembered by three new musical pieces in 2014 during commemorations of the outbreak of World War One:
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1925· 1 entry
Eva Elwes wrote a play Edith Cavell, Nurse and Martyr
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1921· 1 entry
In St Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
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1918· 2 entries
Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer and courtesan executed by the French in 1917, on charges of spying for Germany
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By Queen Alexandra in the grounds of Norwich Cathedral, during the opening of a home for nurses, which also bore her name
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1916· 1 entry
Andrée de Jongh, a Belgian nurse who, inspired by Cavell, in the Second World War created the Comète Line to repatriate Allied airmen
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1915· 4 entries
Died 1915-10-12.
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With Haydn's Missa in Angustiis also performed at the same concert
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“I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.”
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“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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1910· 1 entry
Cavell was asked if she would be the matron for the new secular hospital at Saint-Gilles
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1907· 1 entry
Cavell was recruited by Dr
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1906· 1 entry
Cavell took a temporary post as matron of the Manchester and Salford Sick and Poor and Private Nursing Institution, working there for about nine months
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1901· 1 entry
Luckes recommended Cavell for the position of night superintendent of St Pancras Infirmary
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1865· 1 entry
Born 1865-12-04.
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