Sat 12 Oct 2024 – Edith Cavell Remembered

Alongside Trustees of Cavell, other dignitaries and representatives, the Master, Jane Carey-Harris laid a wreath on behalf of the Worshipful Company of Nurses and Past Master Julia Mingay, laid another on behalf of the Company of Nurses Charitable Trust to commemorate the life of Edith Cavell and her contribution to nursing. Her statue sits at the edge of Trafalgar Square in London and 12th October is the day she was killed in 1915.

She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides of the First World War without discrimination, and for covertly helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium.

“I can't stop while there are lives to be saved” “Patriotism is not enough.  I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone” E. Cavell.