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	Edith Cavell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edith Cavell was born at Swardeston in Norfolk, where her father was rector, in 1865; she trained as a nurse.
		Nurse Cavell is alleged to have helped hundreds of soldiers from the allied forces to escape from occupied Belgium to the Netherlands, in violation of military law.
		In 1916, Mount Edith Cavell in the Canadian Rockies was named in her honour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edith_Cavell (375 words)

	Miss Edith Cavell, a Red Cross nurse and a WW1 martyr.
		Edith Cavell, now in her early forties, was put in charge of a pioneer training school for lay nurses, 'L'Ecole d'Infirmiere Dimplonier' on the outskirts of Brussels.
		Edith was too thorough and she had even managed to keep her 'underground' activities from her nurses so as not to incriminate them.
		The explanation is that Edith simply trusted her captors, was glad to make a clean breast of it and willingly condemned herself by freely admitting at her trial that she had "successfully conducted allied soldiers to the enemy of the German people".
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-nurses/cavell.htm (1601 words)

	Connecticut Nursing News: martyrdom and myth of Edith Cavell, The
		Edith Cavell was born in 1865, eldest child of the Rev. and Mrs.
		Cavell went on to be a private duty nurse, the night superintendent of a hospital for the destitute and finally assistant matron of Shoreditch Infirmary in 1903.
		Cavell was convinced that her hospitals would soon be full of wounded soldiers and wrote to the English publication Nursing Mirror to request financial support for the upcoming humanitarian effort.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3902/is_199903/ai_n8848763 (1562 words)

	The Legends and Traditions of the Great War: Nurse Edith Cavell
		In the summer of 1914, Edith Cavell, head matron of the Berkendael Medical Institute, was on a brief holiday visiting her family in England when news came of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in far Sarajevo.
		Edith's family urged her to stay in England, but she believed duty demanded that she return to the hospital in Brussels.
		Edith's lawyer was eloquent in her defense, saying that she had acted out of compassion for others.
	www.worldwar1.com /heritage/e_cavell.htm (941 words)

	Roll of Honour - Central London - Edith Cavell Memorial
		Edith Cavell, the daughter of the rector of Swardeston, Norfolk, was born in 1865.
		Cavell was kept in solitary confinement for nine weeks, during which time she was tricked by the Germans into making a confession.
		Edith Cavell was tried by court-martial, and along with her Belgian accomplice, Philippe Baucq, was found guilty and sentenced to death.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /London/EditCavell.html (211 words)

	The My Hero Project - Edith Cavelle_cavell_webbcity
		Edith Cavell is a hero because during World War I she did save lives and helped others before herself.
		Edith Cavell was a hero because she helped others and didn't worry about what was going to happen to her.
		Edith Cavell is a hero because she unselfishly took those soldiers into her home without thinking of herself.
	myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=e_cavell_webbcity (426 words)

	Edith Cavell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although Edith Cavell is most often remembered as a nurse martyred during World War I, the authors of this article bring to light the many living contributions which she made.
		During the time that Edith Cavell practiced nursing, a number of procedures aimed at correcting congenital deformities were implemented and a variety of traction devices were used.
		Cavell and her colleagues who worked in Belgian hospitals caring for wounded soldiers were probably faced with all types of war casualties and emergency conditions.
	www.cona-nurse.org /edith_cavell.htm (888 words)

	Nursing Spectrum- Career Fitness Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edith Louisa Cavell (1865-1915) was born in England in a large Georgian-style farmhouse in the English village of Swardeston.
		Edith, a brisk, businesslike, and rather stiff woman with a high crown of graying hair and gray eyes, demanded the highest standards from her students.
		Edith and her staff were hard at work in Belgium when the German army occupied the city of Brussels during World War I. All 60 of the British nurses were ordered home, but Edith somehow managed to remain behind.
	community.nursingspectrum.com /MagazineArticles/article.cfm?AID=1051 (539 words)

	Propaganda Postcards of the Great War, Miss Edith Cavell
		Edith Louisa Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston in Norfolk (GB).
		Edith was weeding her mother's back garden when she heard the dramatic news that Germany had invaded Belgium.
		Cavell sheltered at the Institute British, French and Belgian soldiers, from where they were helped to escape to Holland, which was neutral.
	www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com /miss_edith_cavell.html (402 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Edith Cavell
		Edith Cavell (1865-1915) was a British nurse serving in Belgium who was executed on a charge of assisting Allied prisoners to escape during World War One.
		Cavell was arrested on 5 August 1915 by local German authorities and charged with having personally aided in the escape of some 200 such soldiers.
		Cavell's case received significant sympathetic worldwide press coverage, most notably in Britain and the then-neutral U.S. Such coverage served to harden current popular opinion regarding supposed routine German barbarity in occupied Belgium.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/cavell.htm (321 words)

	SMVPH : Edith Cavell
		Ironically, Edith Cavell is celebrated now chiefly for her last words, "I realize that patriotism is not enough.
		Cavell played a part in helping allied soldiers to hide and escape, and was inevitably caught by the Germans and brought for trial with 35 others before a military court.
		There was insufficient evidence to convict Cavell on a capital charge, apart from her own confession that she had actually succeeded in helping British soldiers to escape.
	www.smvph.org.uk /biography/EdithCavell.php (288 words)

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - Arthur Zimmermann on the Execution of Edith Cavell, 12 October 1915
		Cavell was convicted by the German authorities in occupied Belgium of assisting up to 200 Allied prisoners to escape to Holland and Britain from the hospital where she worked in contravention of German wartime law.
		In spite of widespread international protest over the sentence Cavell was duly executed by firing squad on the night of 12 October 1915.
		I have before me the court's verdict in the Cavell case, and can assure you that it was gone into with the utmost thoroughness, and was investigated and cleared up to the smallest details.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/cavell_zimmermann.htm (873 words)

	EDP24 Features: Edith Cavell
		Norfolk’s first world war heroine Edith Cavell knew she was being stalked by German spies months before her capture for aiding Allied soldiers, according to secret documents released today.
		Edith Cavell, whose warnings about her plight only reached the British a few days before her arrest by the Germans.
		The Rev David Chamberlin, Edith Cavell expert and Vicar of St Mary’s Church, Swardeston, which houses a library of Cavell memorabilia, said: “It underlines what I always thought – that she was very brave and perhaps not as naïve as she may have been portrayed in the past.”
	www.edp24.co.uk /Content/Features/EdithCavell/asp/020509Cavell1.asp (626 words)

	Edith Cavell
		British Military and Criminal History in the period 1900 to 1999 - Although not involved in espionage, Edith Cavell was a British nurse tried by a German courts-martial in Brussels, and later executed by firing squad.
		These words were spoken by Edith Cavell on the eve of her execution by a German firing squad.
		Miss Edith Cavell - Warning: The postcards in this section depict historical scenes of war-related violence, including civilian executions, which are inappropriate for children and which may be upsetting or offensive to some viewers.
	www.nurses.info /personalities_edith_cavell.htm (511 words)

	Edith Cavell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some 200 men had benefited from this help when Cavell and some of her collaborators were arrested.
		Cavell confessed and at her court-martial of October 7-9, 1915, she was sentenced to death, although for reasons which did not include espionage.
		Despite diplomatic efforts by neutral countries to obtain a reprieve, Cavell was executed, becoming a martyr in the process, a widely-publicized example of German atrocities in Belgium.
	www.gwpda.org /bio/c/cavell.html (123 words)

	Norwich Cathedral
		Edith Louise Cavell was born in 1865 in the vicarage at Swardeston and grew up there.
		Edith had a flair for French which she had learned easily and quickly.
		Edith often returned to visit her mother, who since her husband's death was living in Norwich.
	www.cathedral.org.uk /pages/html/edith.html (427 words)

	The Case of Nurse Edith Cavell
		Gahan was with Miss Cavell all that evening, and though they would not let him be with her at the very last, it is the one ameliorating circumstance of the tragedy that the German chaplain was kind.
		Miss Cavell was brave and calm at the last, and she died facing the firing-squad - another martyr in the old cause of human liberty.
		In the letter that Miss Cavell wrote to her nurses there is a reference to the evil of gossip which is of immense significance not only were happiness and reputations destroyed by idleness, she says, but life itself sacrificed.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Cavell/Cavell_00.htm (8429 words)

	HELLFIRE CORNER - Nurse Edith Cavell
		Edith Louise Cavell was born in 1865 in the vicarage of Swardeston (Norfolk) where she grew up.
		In 1895 Edith returned to Swardeston to nurse her father through illness and this led her to spend the next five years training to be a nurse at the London Hospital.
		Edith often returned to visit her mother who, since her husband’s death, was living in Norwich and she was at home in 1914 when news came that the Germans had invaded Belgium.
	www.fylde.demon.co.uk /basey.htm (627 words)

	Who was Edith Cavell? in The AnswerBank: People & Places
		Edith was born in 1865, daughter of the Rev Frederick Cavell, Vicar of Swardeston, Norfolk - the eldest of four.
		Edith received the Maidstone Medal for her work here - the only medal she was ever to receive from her country.
		Edith - put in charge of the training school - rose to the occasion and, by 1912, was providing nurses for three hospitals, 24 communal schools and 13 kindergartens.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1869.html (656 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| How British diplomats failed Edith Cavell
		Ninety years ago today, Edith Cavell, a British nurse at a Red Cross hospital in Belgium, was executed by firing squad for helping 200 allied soldiers to escape.
		Cavell became a revered first world war figure when she looked after both German and allied injured troops, and helped her British and French patients to escape Belgium, occupied by the Kaiser's forces.
		Edith Cavell was born in 1885 at Swardeston in Norfolk, the daughter of a parson.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1589911,00.html (453 words)

	Mount Edith Cavell
		Edith Cavell (1865-1915) was a matron nurse of the Belgium Red Cross in Brussels.
		Her heroic deeds of aiding 200 or more allied soldiers to escape from behind enemy lines in Germany into freedom in Holland, via the underground railroad, are never to be forgotten with the tribute to her patriotism in the naming of this mountain.
		The story of Edith Cavell is one of compassion and disregard for oneself in the face of misery.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Alberta/mount_edith_cavell.htm (619 words)

	The Daring Nurse Edith Cavell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cavell still considered Boger and Meachin to be in danger and, with the help of two English civilians living in Brussels (who so far had been left alone by the German authorities), arranged for them to be accompanied by a guide out of the city.
		He called on Cavell in her office and told her he was going into hiding.
		Enlarged photographs, booklets, postcards and Edith Cavell souvenir mugs and combs are on sale in the church's simple, whitewashed nave.
	www.thehistorynet.com /mh/blcavell/index1.html (1009 words)

	alpine climbing Edith Cavell, Canadian Rockies
		The East Ridge of Mount Edith Cavell (left skyline, above) is one of the finer rock climbs to a major Rockies summit.
		Edith Cavell dominates the skyline south of Jasper townsite, and is about an hour's drive east of Mount Robson.
		An early morning view to the southwest from the the lower section of Mount Edith Cavell's east ridge.
	peakbagger.tripod.com /Climbs/EdithCavell/edithcavell.htm (504 words)

	Cavill Mayor - Edith Cavell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edith Cavell has been described as one of the most fascinating characters of World War 1 (Military History Feature – August 1996) and is the first woman to be nominated the Victoria Cross.
		Edith first worked as a governess for a family in Brussels then became a nurse.
		Edith heard the dramatic news that Germany had invaded Belgium.
	www.cavillmayor.com /The_Name.htm (117 words)

	Edith Cavell - A War Heroine
		Edith decided that now was the time to return to England to care for her father.
		Edith Cavell was born and raised in Belgium.
		Edith Cavell never knew that she was a heroine.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_290.html (478 words)

	Nurse Edith Cavell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cavell, with a network of friends including the boys' grandmother, the barge-owner Mme Moulin (ZaSu Pitts), and a dignified Countess (Edna May Oliver) help him and two hundred other wounded young men to escape into Holland and France.
		By August 1915, Cavell and her friends are betrayed by a German spy and put on trial.
		Cavell was shot for performing her duty as a nurse.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webfilms/nurse.edith.cavel44-film-.html (388 words)

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