OnThisDay, 12th October 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by sentence of a German court martial.

 OnThisDay, 12th October 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by sentence of a German court martial. 



Before the First World War, she became famous as the superior of Belgium's first secular school for nurses. During the fighting, she was the superior of a military hospital. In nine months she helped 200 British and French prisoners of war to escape. In August 1915, following a denunciation, she was arrested and charged with treason.

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