At 7 o’clock in the morning on 12 October 1915,a Red Cross nurse was murdered by a firing squad. Still wearing her nurse’s uniform, Edith Cavell was shot by 16 German soldiers. Her crime? Helping the Allied servicemen she was treating escape to safety. Born in Norfolk, or Edith trained as a nurse in London. […]The post Remembering Edith Cavell: a valiant First World War nurse appeared first on British Red Cross blog.
Source: redcross.org.uk