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This is an image of a brave nurse named, Edith Cavell, sitting in a garden in Brussels with her two dogs before the outbreak of the First World War
This is an image of a brave nurse named, Edith Cavell, sitting in a garden in Brussels with her two dogs before the outbreak of the First World War. The dog on the left, "Jack" was rescued after her execution for being a hero. On the 20th of August, Brussels was occupied by the Germans. Her nursing school became a Red Cross hospital, treating casualties from both sides, as well as continuing to treat civilians. In September 1914, Edith was asked to help two wounded British soldiers trapped behind German lines following the Battle Of Mons. She treated the men in her hospital and then arranged to have them smuggled out of Belgium into the neutral Netherlands. She became part of a network of people who sheltered Allied soldiers and Belgians eligible for military service, arranging their escape. Over the next 11 months she helped around 200 British, French and Belgian soldiers, sheltering them in the hospital and arranging for guides to take them to the border. On 5 August 1915,