In 1932, Madame Tussaud’s asked their younger visitors to choose from among the waxworks the individual they most wanted to be like when they grew up. The most popular answer was not the kind of ...

Edith Cavell died as a pioneering nurse exactly 100 years ago, executed by the German army on 12 October 1915 for helping British soldiers get home from Belgium. Her death became notorious across the ...

Two commemorative services to honour war heroine Edith Cavell have been held, 100 years after her body was returned to England. The Norfolk nurse is credited with helping 200 British soldiers escape ...

A British nurse who risked — and ultimately lost — her life to help British and French soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium in World War I is remembered with a Google Doodle Tuesday. Edith ...

BRUSSELS – Belgium is commemorating the execution of British World War I nurse Edith Cavell by the German forces that occupied the country, lauding her outstanding contribution to humanity. Germany ...

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As the world continues to remember the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, The Royal Mint has chosen to honour one very special lady. Nurse Edith Cavell was one of the most prominent ...