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Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a humanitarian and British nurse. She was executed during WWI. She treated any soldier, regardless of nationality. She worked with a network helping British and French soldiers, as well as French and Belgian men of military age, escape to the Netherlands. Phillippe Baucq was also executed, but three other captured members of the network were reprieved.

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