Eva Luckes
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Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes was matron of the London Hospital from 1880 to 1919.
Portrait of 1914
A plaque dedicated to Eva Luckes located in the Whitechapel library belonging to the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
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
Eva Luckes
…by an examination. In the summer of 1897, a typhoid epidemic broke out in Maidstone and nine of Luckes' Probationers were seconded to help, including Edith Cavell. Lückes also sent several more from the hospital's Private Nursing Institution. Of the 1,700 who contracted the disease, at least 132 died. In 1905 a…
Edith Cavell
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