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Edith Louisa Cavell (1865 - 1915)
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Daughter of Frederick Cavell and Louisa Sophia (Warming) Cavell
Sister of Florence Mary Cavell, Mary Lilian Cavell and John Frederick Scott Cavell
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Edith Cavell - World War I British nurse, celebrated for saving the lives of over 200 Allied soldiers in German-occupied Brussels. She was arrested, tried and executed by a German firing squad.
Biography
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EDITH LOUISA CAVELL, first child to the Rev. Frederick Cavell and his wife Louisa Sophia, was born on December 4, 1865 at Swardeston, Norfolk, England. She was baptised by her father, at Swardeston Church on February 4, 1866. [1][2]
Edith and her brother and sisters, Florence, Lillian and John
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Edith Cavell
Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December1865 – 12 October1915) was a British nurse, humanitarian and spy. She is celebrated for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I, for which she was arrested. She was court-martialled, found guilty of treason and executed.
Quotes
[edit]- I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
- As quoted in "Edith Cavell" by Helen Judson in The American Journal of Nursing (July 1941), p. 871
- Someday, somehow, inom am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.
- As quoted in The Economist (15 October 2010), p. 107
Last statements (1915)
[edit]- Last statements prior to her execution (11 October 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan, in Source Records of the Great War (1923), edited by Charles F. Horne, Vol. III
- I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement/Cavell, Edith
CAVELL, EDITH (1865-1915), nurse, was born at Swardeston, Norfolk, 4 December 1865, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Frederick Cavell, vicar of Swardeston, by his wife, Louisa Sophia Walming. She was educated at home, at a school in Somerset, and in Brussels. In 1888, having inherited a small competency, she travelled on the Continent. When visiting Bavaria, she took much interest in a free hospital maintained by a Dr. Wolfenberg, and endowed it with a fund for the purchase of instruments. In 1895 she entered the London Hospital as a probationer. In 1897 she took charge of an emergency typhoid hospital at Maidstone. Having attained the position of staff nurse at the London Hospital, she engaged in poor law nursing, serving in the Highgate and Shoreditch infirmaries. Subsequently she took temporary charge of a Queen’s district nursery in Manchester. In 1906 she went to Brussels to co-operate with Dr. Depage in