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Edith Cavell (1865-1915): World War
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In the courtyard behind the central block of the Royal London Hospital on the surrounding buildings, there is a plaque commemorating the fact that Edith Cavell was a nurse at this hospital. In World War 1, Edith Cavell (1865-1915) was a nurse in German occupied Belgium and was arrested and charged with assisting Allied soldiers to escape into neutral Holland. Her execution by the Germans caused an outcry. Nearby Cavell Street is named after her. (See No. 9. on Map)
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Edith Cavell was the director of a nursing school in Brussels when the war broke out. True to her principles as a nurse, she treated the wounded of all sides as the Germans invaded Belgium, and the BEF attempted to turn them back. But ... being true to her convictions as a Briton, she helped Allied soldiers escape who had been caught behind the lines during the retreat from Mons (1914). She was arrested, tried, condemned, and shot at dawn on October 12, 1915. (Click here to read the portrait's accompanying text.)
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Edith Cavell was buried near her execution in Brussels and after the war her remains were reburied in Norwich, the town where she was born. She was later commemorated by Cavell Street, just behind the London Hospital and is revered to this day in Belgium as one of the founders of the nursing establishment.
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During the First World War Edith worked at a training school in Brussels, assisting the escape of many British soldiers to neutral territory in Holland. When two of her escapees were captured, she was arrested and imprisoned - accused of helping hundreds of allied soldiers to escape.
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One of the most famous women who died in the First World War was Edith Cavell (1865-1915) – a British nurse who worked in Belgium and was shot by the Germans for helping Allied soldiers escape. There are at least nine memorials to her, including one in St Martin's Place in London.
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