Edith Cavell
Americannoun
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Sally Collier, who has talked of her admiration for Edith Cavell, the nurse executed during the First World War, later stepped down as chief regulator and has made no comment since.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2020
Life-size models of Edith Cavell, Stephen Fry and Horatio Nelson have been placed around a new "portrait" bench near Norwich train station.
From BBC • May 23, 2013
In the weeks before British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad in World War I, she pored over her copy of Thomas à Kempis’s 15th-century devotional book, “The Imitation of Christ.”
From Washington Post
In World War I, Nurse Edith Cavell repeated the hymn as she faced the firing squad.
From Time Magazine Archive
London in particular, and the nation in general, laid its wreath of prayer around the bier of Edith Cavell in a great memorial service held in St. Paul's Cathedral on October 29, 1915.
From A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Protheroe, Ernest
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