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Description: | Extensive collection of papers relating to her work as director of a school for trainee nurses in Brussels before and during the First World War, her involvement with the sheltering of British soldiers at the school during 1915 following the Battle of Mons, her contacts with members of the 'resistance' in German-occupied Belgium, and her trial and execution by the Germans in 1915, comprising: fragments of her 1915 diary, circa 25 ms letters written by her between 1911 and 1915 together with other papers in her hand, private and official correspondence concerning her arrest, imprisonment and execution, together with a considerable quantity of post-1918 material concerning the funeral services held in London and Norwich, the various memorials to her, the establishment of the Edith Cavell Homes for Nurses, and the acquisition by the Imperial War Museum of artefacts and documents pertaining to her.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1993-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cavell, Edith Louisa | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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