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 ...
This is an unusual, hand-made memorial. Although it looks quite old, historic Google Street Views show that it was erected between April ...
Lovely graphic border to this plaque - ears of corn.
The foundation stone is low down on the Ingestre Place elevation. The history plaque, in our photo hiding behind the 'no bikes' sign, is ...
Celia Fiennes, 1662 - 1741, traveller and diarist, lived in a house near this site from 1738, and died here. London Borough of Hackney
To the glory of God and in memory of those once scholars of this school who gave their lives for King & country in the Great War 1914...
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