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
Mrs. George Bellows lent her husband's famous picture of Edith Cavell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Edith Cavell was born at Swardeston in Norwich, England, in 1873.
From A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Edwards, Clayton
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