Edith Cavell
1865–1915 · Person
British nurse in occupied Brussels who treated wounded of both sides and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape to neutral Holland. Court-martialled and shot by the Germans, she became the war's most potent martyr: 'Patriotism is not enough.'
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