What is Edith Cavell?
[[Image:Edith Cavell.jpg|right|250px]] '''Edith Louisa Cavell''' (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a [[British]] [[nurse]]. She saved the lives of soldiers from both sides. She helped some 200 Allied soldiers to escape from German-occupied [[Belgium]] during the [[First World War]]. She was arrested and accused of treason, found guilty by a [[court-martial]] and [[sentenced to death]]. Despite international pleas for mercy, she was shot by a [[German people|German]] [[firing squad]]. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage.<ref>Hughes, Anne-Marie Claire 2005. War, gender and national mourning: the significance of the death and commemoration of Edith Cavell in Britain. ''European Review of History''. '''12''' (3): 425–44. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13507480500428938]</ref><ref>Hull, Isabel V. 2014. A Scrap of Paper: breaking and making of onternational law during the Great War. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-5273-4</ref> Edith Cavell was born on the 4th of December 1865 near [[Norfolk]] and was the oldest of four children. Her father was a [[vicar]], who always taught her the importance of loving and caring for others. In 1890, she became a [[governess]] for a family in [[Belgium]], before returning home to care for her sick father. She enrolled in nursing school in 1896, and graduated in 1898. In 1907, she became a [[matron]] at the nursing school in Belgium. == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cavell, Edith}} [[Category:1865 births]] [[Category:1915 deaths]] [[Category:British people of World War I]] [[Category:Executed English people]] [[Category:British nurses]] [[Category:People executed by firearm]] [[Category:People from Norfolk]]