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4 unusual facts about Edith Cavell


Beauchamp Middle School

Most of Beauchamp's pupils come from Scott Lower School and Brickhill Lower School in Brickhill, and Edith Cavell Lower School and Livingstone Lower School in Harpur.

Bodiam railway station

The railway van that conveyed Edith Cavell's remains from Dover to London is kept as a memorial and is usually open to view at Bodiam railway station.

Charles Mangin

(The other was of Edith Cavell.) In 1957 a new statue was erected on the nearby avenue de Breteuil.

Diana Souhami

Edith Cavell, a biography of the nurse who was executed for her role in the smuggling of allied soldiers out of Belgium during the First World War.


Edith Cavell Hospital

The £20m hospital, built to complement services provided elsewhere in the city, was named after the Norfolk-born nurse and humanitarian, Edith Cavell, who received part of her education at Laurel Court in the Minster Precinct.

George Frampton

Among Frampton's notable public sculptures are the figures of Peter Pan playing a set of pipes, the lions at the British Museum and the Edith Cavell monument that stands outside the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Paul Du Bois

Among his most famous monumental works, located in Brussels, are the monument to Frederic de Merode, and the tribute to Edith Cavell and fellow nurse Marie Depage (of the RMS Lusitania), the Four Elements group in the Botanical Garden of Brussels, and several sculptures in the City of Saint-Gilles.


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