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 ...
JSSL Between 1952 and 1954, the Joint Services School for Linguists was located at Coulsdon Common Camp. Here linguists were trained for ...
The plaque is on the brick wall to the right of the pub. The photo on our page for the Battle was taken right in front of this pub.
In 1940, after briefly being in Mayfair and Victoria, de Gaulle moved here with his French National Committee. On 18 June that year he ma...
{Between the depictions of two ships:} St. Nicholas Church Deptford, the ancient parish church of Deptford, a church has stood on this s...
We counted 5 memorials on the outside of this building: the relief showing Tyburn martyrs at attic level; the Gunne plaque at eye level o...