Edith Cavell
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Edith Louisa Cavell was a British nurse. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers esca
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Cavell in a garden in Brussels with her two dogs before the outbreak of war
Cavell (seated centre) with a group of multinational student nurses whom she trained in Brussels
Florence Nightingale and Cavell on a postage stamp marking 60 years of the Costa Rican Red Cross
Charles Fryatt
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Charles Algernon Fryatt was a British merchant seaman who was court martialled by the Imperial German Navy for attempting to ram a German U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brussels, was captured b
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…Admiralty Pier) in Dover on 14 May 1919. Cavell's was one of only three sets of British remains repatriated following the end of the war, the others being Charles Fryatt and The Unknown Warrior. As the ship arrived, a full peal of Grandsire Triples (5040 Changes, Parker's Twelve-Part) was rung on the bells of St Mary's…
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SS Brussels scuttled at Zeebrugge, October 1918
Bruges Town Hall, where Fryatt's court-martial occurred
Notice of execution in German, Dutch and French