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Edith Cavell: World War I Nurse and Heroine| Military History | 0 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post
Enlarged photographs, booklets, postcards and Edith Cavell souvenir mugs and combs are on sale in the church’s simple, whitewashed nave. The visitors’ book contains the names of people from America, Canada, South Africa–and Germany. There is little likelihood that the world will ever forget the little gray-eyed woman whose almost fanatical sense of duty led her to a firing squad 80 years ago.
This article was written by Peter Clowes and originally published in the August 1996 issue of Military History.
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