Remember! The Murder of Edith Cavell
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Title: Remember! The Murder of Edith Cavell
Creator: Laureys
Description: Miss Edith Cavell cowardly murdered by a German officer Condemned to death by a military tribunal in Belgium, under the charge of having favoured the evasion of British soldiers, miss Edith Cavell, of Norwich, a vouluntary nurse, is taken to the execution ground on the 12th October at daybreak. She faints: the German officer gives his soldiers the order to fire; they hesitate to shoot on the prostrate body of a woman. The fiend takes his revolver and leaning upon his victim, deliberately blows her brains out. Remember!
Format: Postcard
Citation: Laureys, “Remember! The Murder of Edith Cavell,” VCU Libraries Gallery, accessed December 25, 2024, https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/79584.