British nurse Edith Louisa Cavell - Trial and Execution - WW1

Series of 6 postcards illustrating the death of Edith Cavell during World War 1..Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War, for which she was arrested. She was subsequently court-martialled, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage...Edith_Cavell ( Edith_Cavell )

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1914 - 1918

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