Artist/Photographer

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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

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

cavell_061b.jpg

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