Nurse Edith Cavell

The Execution of a British Nurse

from a British newsmagazine : 'the Illustrated War News'

Nurse Cavell and American Minister Brand Whitlock

from 'Le Pays de France'

cover page of a December 1915 issue of 'le Pays de France'

Illustration of the execution

2 pages of photos showing the Rememberance services held in Paris and London

4 Proposals for a Commemorative Monument in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to Miss Cavell

from a 1919 issue : the Belgian trial at which the person who denounced Miss Cavell to the

German authorities (Georges Quien - bottom center) is found guilty and sentenced to death.

The other photos are of procescution witnesses, including the Princess de Croy (bottom right)

Note that death sentences were automatically communted to life imprisonment in Belgium.

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