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Description: | 6 folders of correspondence, photographs, publications and other items assembled by the author Rowland Ryder during the course of research for his biography of Nurse Edith Cavell (published in 1975), including correspondence dating mainly from the 1960s with eyewitnesses and others concerning Edith Cavell's early years, her nursing service at the London Hospital and as Matron of the teaching hospital in Brussels which she ran in the years preceding the First World War, the nurses who worked with her in Brussels and the British soldiers she cared for there in the early months of the war and those she assisted in rejoining British lines following the retreat from Mons in 1914, the Brussels-based escape and resistance network organised by Phillipe Baucq and others with whom she was associated, her trial and execution in 1915 and their aftermath, including also the script of the 1975 radio programme about Edith Cavell, 'Patriotism is not enough', written and narrated by Ryder.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2005-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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