London Borough of Hackney
Edith Cavell. Executed in Belgium by German firing squad for assisting injured soldiers in World War I. Assistant Matron at the Shoreditch Infirmary, 1903 - 1906.
Cavell was executed by the Germans in Brussels and she figures on our sister site, .
E2, Kingsland Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edith Cavell plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Edith Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston in Norfolk. At the age...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edith Cavell plaque
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
The plaque was unveiled by actor Russell Tovey and Mayor of Wandsworth, Leslie McDonnell.
Marley lived here on the first of his many visits to London. This plaque was erected 25 years after his death. Getty Images have some pho...
From St Matthias Halls: "Church halls were built in 1902 (called St Matthias Institute) by voluntary subscriptions – downstairs being use...
This strangely monikered garden was named for Dr William Heath Strange who, in 1882, founded the Hampstead General Hospital that went on ...
The Taxation plaque is the one nearest the camera. The St Benet blue plaque is on the far wall and the St Benet inscribed stone plaque i...
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