Edith Cavell
Americannoun
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The war took Edith Cavell from relative obscurity to immortal fame.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2014
Edith Cavell a nurse who was shot by the Germans in World War I for saving British soldiers.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 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
Get plenty of pictures for those who can't spell, Of Jesus and Dickens and Edith Cavell.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It has brought us, as we cannot at this moment forget, the imperishable story of the last hours of Edith Cavell, facing a terrible ordeal worse than that of the battle-field.
From A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Protheroe, Ernest
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