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- noun English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915)
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"I suppose you've heard of the fate that came to an English nurse called Edith Cavell, eh?"
The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders Or, the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge
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Edith Cavell 1865-1915 was a British nurse serving in Belgium who was executed on a charge of assisting Allied prisoners to escape during World War One.
Edith Cavell de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Edith Cavell 1865-1915 was a British nurse serving in Belgium who was executed on a charge of assisting Allied prisoners to escape during World War One.
Archive 2008-07-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Gordon you can see we're on first name terms tells the story of Edith Cavell, a nurse who found herself in German-occupied Belgium in World War I, and who used the hospital she worked in as cover to help hundreds of allied soldiers to freedom.
Archive 2007-07-01 Clive Shepherd 2007
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Gordon you can see we're on first name terms tells the story of Edith Cavell, a nurse who found herself in German-occupied Belgium in World War I, and who used the hospital she worked in as cover to help hundreds of allied soldiers to freedom.
Courage Clive Shepherd 2007
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Debris is strewn all over Edith Cavell street up to Kotze street with broken glass and rubbish being thrown into the streets by revellers and occupants of neighbouring flats.
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Debris is strewn all over Edith Cavell street up to Kotze street with broken glass and rubbish being thrown into the streets by revellers and occupants of neighbouring flats.
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The queue wound around the block along Smit, Edith Cavell and Pietersen Streets.
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The queue wound around the block along Smit, Edith Cavell and Pietersen Streets.
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In 1906 Edith Cavell left the English hospitals, where she had made a reputation for herself, and went back to Brussels, where she took a position as matron in a Medical and Surgical Home.
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards
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