Picture No | 10218190 |
Date | 1915 |
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.
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Source | Illustrated London News. 1915 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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