London Borough of Hackney
Edith Cavell. Executed in Belgium by German firing squad for assisting injured soldiers in World War I. Assistant Matron at the Shoreditch Infirmary, 1903 - 1906.
Cavell was executed by the Germans in Brussels and she figures on our sister site, BrusselsRemembers.
E2, Kingsland Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edith Cavell plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Edith Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston in Norfolk. At the age...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edith Cavell plaque
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Plaque unveiled by her daughter, Tessa, Viscountess Montgomery of Alamein.
A London Inheritance explains that only the lower section of wall is actually Roman. The top, brick, section is from 1477 when the City W...
Trying to understand the right hand panel: the 'south vestry' is probably the small flat-roofed extension, similar to this one, but on th...
Novelist, Antonia White, (Eirene Botting), 1899 - 1980, lived here, 1899 - 1921.
Royal Air Force (Egypt) Memorial gives a report of the laying of this stone.
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