Edith Cavell
Americannoun
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Edith Cavell a nurse who was shot by the Germans in World War I for saving British soldiers.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2013
Life-size models of Edith Cavell, Stephen Fry and Horatio Nelson have been placed around a new "portrait" bench near Norwich train station.
From BBC • May 23, 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
Nurses who served with "Martyr" Edith Cavell show no sympathy for her admirers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At the same time that the Governor denied this appeal, Edith Cavell was allowed to see a British chaplain.
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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