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Auction: 15037 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 43

Documents
Edith Cavell
1894 (c.) a family album of questions with written answers by members of the Francoise family and friends, includes a page written in her hand and signed "Edith Cavell, 21st Sept. 1894". A black felt cloth with embroidered signatures of family members included "E Cavell". An 1895 photograph 280x230mm of a large (family?) group of over sixty on an outing which includes Edith Cavell near the centre (believed to be unpublished) and a small photograph with Miss Cavell with the youngsters of the family. A very unusual and important group.



Edith Cavell took a post as governess with the Francoise family in Brussels in 1890 and stayed there for five years. She became a family favorite. Photo

Edith Cavell was the World War I British nurse who is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers in Brussels from all sides without distinction. She and Belgian and French colleagues helped over 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium.


She was arrested, tried with 33 others by a German military court, found guilty of ‘assisting men to the enemy’ and shot by a German firing squad on October 12 1915.


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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200