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 ...
In grateful memory of Frederick Newland Pedley who founded the Dental School in 1889, this tablet was unveiled on 4th May 1994, the fifti...
The Corporation of the City of London Site of Aldersgate, demolished 1761
Folgate Street was known as White Lion Street until 1938. Â On the south side of the street number 10, two houses to the left (east) of 12...
This way was called Fountain Court until 1883 from the Fountain Tavern which stood on this site.
