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
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
Edith Cavell is the best of the lot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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