What’s the context? 12 October 2015: The execution of Edith Cavell
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First World War, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
In the early hours of Tuesday, 12 October 1915, Edith Cavell, a British nurse who had been working in Belgium, was executed by the Germans after being found guilty of helping over 200 Allied servicemen escape to England. At her …