Edith Cavell
British nurse (1865-1915) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 49
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.
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Cavell in a garden in Brussels with her two dogs before the outbreak of war
Cavell (seated centre) with a group of multinational student nurses whom she trained in Brussels
Florence Nightingale and Cavell on a postage stamp marking 60 years of the Costa Rican Red Cross
A propaganda stamp issued shortly after Cavell's death
The Murder of Edith Cavell, (George Bellows, 1918)
An anti-German post-First World War poster from the British Empire Union, including Cavell's grave
The Cavell Case (1919), an American filmAbout this person
Cavell was arrested, court-martialled under German military law, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German government refused to commute her sentence and she was shot. The execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage.
