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
Soldier Giraud, who escaped from the Germans in World War I with the help of Nurse Edith Cavell, was captured again by the Germans in World War II, during the Sedan breakthrough.
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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