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Picture No 10218188
Date 1919
Description Edith Cavell
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Edith Cavell was executed during World War One, with the charge of assisting allied soldiers to escape. She worked for the Red Cross in a Belgium hospital where many of the Allied soldiers treated there managed to escape to Holland. In 1915 German authorities arrested Cavell and kept her in solitary confinement until she gave a false confession. Her execution received worldwide sympathetic media coverage.
Source Illustrated London News. 1919
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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