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
The war took Edith Cavell from relative obscurity to immortal fame.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2014
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
They have limited their efforts mainly to trying to keep from impressionable Latin Americans such pictures as anti-German Nurse Edith Cavell, antimilitarist All Quiet on the Western Front.
From Time Magazine Archive
With true nobility of heart Queen Alexandra promptly requested that her name should give way to that of Edith Cavell, and public subscriptions quickly assured an enlargement of the original scheme.
From A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Protheroe, Ernest
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