British nurse Edith Cavell was shot by the Germans 100 years ago,accused of treason for helping allied soldiers to escape the first world warEdith Cavell celebrated 100 years on | Richard Norton-TaylorOn 16 October 1915, the Manchester Guardian ran a news in brief from the foreign office - English lady executed in Brussels’. ‘Miss Edith Cavell, and ’ the article went on,‘lately head of a large training school for nurses at Brussels, was executed on the 13th inst. It is understood that the charge against Miss Cavell was that she had harboured fugitive British and French soldiers and Belgians of military age and assisted them to escape from Belgium.’Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com