Postcard showing the grave of Edith Cavell in Brussels - 1

Edith Cavell served as a nurse with the Red Cross in Belgium before and during World War I. On August 5, 1915 she was arrested by the Germans on the charge of assisting allied troops to escape to Holland. After being held for nine weeks, Edith confessed and was brought to trial. She was sentenced to death by firing squad, along with her accomplice Philippe Baucq, and was executed on 12 October 1915.
Her story is detailed in an attached link to the Imperial War Museum.

This is one of four postcards purchased together relating to Edith Cavell and others who were executed by the Germans during World War One. Two, including this one, show her decorated grave in Brussels, another shows the cemetery where 41 martyrs including Edith Cavell were buried and the last is of a temporary monument erected in Brussels to commemorate Edith Cavell.