Edith Louise Cavell She is known for saving the lives of soldiers of all the warring countries without any differences, and for helping about 200 Allied soldiers to flee Belgium occupied by German troops, for which she was arrested and executed by the Germans.
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Cavell completed nursing courses in 1895, and went to Brussels in 1907, becoming the head of the established L'École Belge d'Infirmières Diplômées on the Rue de la Culture school of nursing, where she significantly improved the quality of nursing education. After the occupation of most of the territory of Belgium by German forces in 1914, she became a member of an underground group involved in the transfer of wounded and captured soldiers of the Allied armies to the neutral Netherlands . The soldier was hidden in the building of the School of Nursing, which became the Red Cross Hospital. Cavell's main assistant was the Belgian Philip Buck, who helped with money and connections. Until August 1915, when Cavell, Buck, and several of their assistants were arrested, they managed to save about 200 people.
Edith Cavell was subjected to a military court on October 7, 1915, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure (especially from the United States and Spain), she was shot by German soldiers. The execution was condemned in different countries, it was widely publicized in the press by the member states of the Entente and their allies, as well as neutral countries, the image of Edith Cavell was used in the military propaganda of the allies.
In central London, on a small St. Martin's Square, not far from Trafalgar Square, a monument is erected in honor of Edith Cavell [6] .
Bibliography
- Edith Cavell , by Diana Souhami, Publisher: Quercus, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84916-359-0
- Transnational Outrage: the Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell , by Katie Pickles, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 1-4039-8607-X
- The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts — The War Letters of Alice Fitzgerald, an American Nurse Serving in the British Expeditionary Force, Boulogne-The ... ... Trial, And Death of Nurse Edith Cavell by Alice L. Fitzgerald, E. Lymon Cabot (July 2006), Publisher: Diggory Press, ISBN 1-84685-202-1
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ filmportal.de - 2005.
- ↑ FemBio
- ↑ Edith Cavell: 100th anniversary to mark death of World War I nurse revered in Britain
- ↑ english wiki .