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Publisher
Laureys
Date Published
1915-1930
Publishing Note
Laureys, imp. édit., 17, r. d'Enghien, Paris. Reproduction interdite Visé Paris
Postcard Text
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 voluntary nurse, is taken to the execution ground on the 12th of 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!
Postcard Number
No. 870
Personal Name Subject
Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915 -- Death and burial
Topical Subject
Firing squads (Execution) -- Belgium -- Brussels; World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Belgium; World War, 1914-1918 -- Women; Nurses -- England; Nurses -- Belgium
Geographic Subject
Brussels (Belgium)
Medical Subject
Nurses -- Belgium; Nurses -- Great Britain; Prisoners -- Belgium; Capital Punishment -- Belgium; World War I -- Belgium
City/Country Location
Brussels (Belgium)
Original Item Medium
postcards
Original Item Size
9 x 14 cm.
Genre
postcards
Local Genre
postcard
Type
Still Image; Text
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
The copyright and related rights status of this material is unknown. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Kay Seidenberg Nursing Postcard Collection
Source
Original postcard: Miss Edith Cavell Murdered October 12th 1915 Remember!, Kay Seidenberg Nursing Postcard Collection, Accession Number 2016-02-01, Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
kay_061a.jpg