Edith Cavell
✶December 4, 1865
†October 12, 1915
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✶December 4, 1865
†October 12, 1915
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Edith Louisa Cavell was a British nurse. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Cavell was arrested, court-martialled under German military law, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German government refused to commute her sentence and she was shot. The execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage.
British nurse (1865-1915)
Biography from the article Edith Cavell on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.