Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Explorers' Club, № CDLXVIII

Operation AXIOM: The World War
Edith Cavell (1865-1915), the British nurse & professor of nursing, resident in Belgium prior to the July Crisis of 1914, who helped over two hundred Entente (Allied) soldiers & military-age civilians escape into the neutral Netherlands until arrested, court-martialed, & executed by the German occupational authorities on 12 October 1915.









Lest we forget.

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