Nurse Edith Cavell: Two Accounts of a Notable British Nurse of the First World War---The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell by William Thomson Hill

I cannot stop while there are lives to be saved
Edith Cavell

Nurse Edith Cavell was a British Nurse and humanitarian who became famous during the First World War for not only nursing and saving the lives of battle casualties with no regard for the nationality of the combatants, but also for her work in assisting some 200 Allied soldiers to escape incarceration by the victorious German Army in Belgium during the early stages of the conflict. This middle aged nurse was discovered by the German...