Statues and Busts. Edith Cavell. London.

This Monument to Edith Cavell is at the junction of St Martin's Lane and Charing Cross Road, London.
She was born in 1865 and after training as a nurse at the London Hospital she became the first matron of the Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels. When the German Army invaded Belgium in 1914, Berkendael became a neutral Red Cross hospital for wounded soldiers of all nations. On 5 August 1915, she was arrested by the Germans and charged with having helped over 200 allied soldiers to escape to neutral Holland. Imprisoned by the Germans she was tricked into making a confession and then tried by court martial, and sentenced to death. She was executed on 12th October 1915. The monument is by Sir George Frampton (1920). Ironically there is a street in Hillbrow named after her.