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The Nurse Who Inspired Britain

About Us | Updated 12 Oct 2015 | Tags: #Cavell #EdithCavell Edith Cavell Edith Cavell Ward

Edith Cavell became an unlikely heroine of the First World War when she helped hundreds of wounded British soldiers escape their German captors. The nurse, who briefly trained at St George’s Hospital, settled in Belgium where she was a Red Cross hospital matron by the time hostilities broke out in 1914. The Germans warned …
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