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whole: the oval image is positioned at the centre. The title is separate and placed across the top, with the text separate
and positioned upper centre, lower centre and across the bottom, all in black. All set against a white background and held within a black
border.
image: a photographic portrait of Edith Cavell.
text: MURDERED
OCTOBER 12TH, 1915
By THE Huns
MISS EDITH CAVELL
ENLIST IN THE 99th AND HELP STOP SUCH ATROCITIES
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PUBLISHED BY THE ESSEX COUNTY RECRUITING COMMITTEE
Record Print, Windsor
Edith Cavell (1865-1915) was a Red Cross nurse in Belgium, executed by the Germans during the First World War.
The British-born Cavell arrived in Belgium in 1907 to take up the post as matron of a training school for nurses. When the Germans invaded
in 1914 she remained in Belgium joining the Red Cross and treating the wounded of both sides. However, in August 1915 she was charged,
along with an accomplice, with aiding the escape of over two-hundred Allied soldiers to neutral Holland. She confessed her guilt and faced
the firing squad in October. Her execution provoked an outcry in Britain and was often cited in Allied propaganda as an example of German
brutality.
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Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Execution civilian suffering Death Costume and fashion racial stereotypes Cavell empire / commonwealth women / womens work Edith Louisa CA.O The Essex County Recruiting Committee portrait / personification recruiting propaganda Atrocities and War Crimes WW1 British Home Front civilian effort | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Record Print, Windsor | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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