3647 x 5447 px | 30,9 x 46,1 cm | 12,2 x 18,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
agosto 2013
Ubicazione:
Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk, England. UK
Altre informazioni:
Edith Cavell's grave. Born 4 December 1865 in Norfolk, Edith Cavell entered the nursing profession aged 20. Moving to Belgium she was appointed matron of the Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels in 1907. During her short career in Belgium she modernised the standard of Belgian nursing. Edith joined the Red Cross during war of 1914 - 18. Many of the captured Allied soldiers who were treated at Berkendael succeeded in escaping - with Cavell's active assistance - to neutral Holland. She was arrested on 5 August 1915 by local German authorities and charged with having personally aided in the escape of some 200 such soldiers. Kept in solitary confinement for nine weeks the Germans successfully extracted a confession from Cavell which formed the basis of her trial. She, along with a named Belgian accomplice Philippe Baucq, were duly pronounced guilty and sentenced to death by firing squad. The sentence was carried out on 12 October 1915 without reference to the German high command. Cavell's case received significant sympathetic worldwide press coverage, most notably in Britain and the then-neutral U.S. Such coverage served to harden current popular opinion regarding alleged routine German barbarity in occupied Belgium.
