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
Get plenty of pictures for those who can't spell, Of Jesus and Dickens and Edith Cavell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our enemies have exploited this circumstance with the greatest refinement in the case of the German invasion of "poor little Belgium," the shooting of the "heroic nurse," Edith Cavell, and other incidents.
From My Three Years in America by Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
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