NURSE CAVELL'S GRAVE AND MEMORIAL [Main]


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  • Année: 1919
  • Durée: 5 mins
  • Description: Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she was shot. A close-up of her grave, decorated with flowers and with Red Cross and British flags, tracking out to show other graves in the cemetery. People lay flowers at the foot of the statue of Nurse Cavell erected in the centre of Brussels. Australian soldiers and Belgian civilians hand out toys to children.
    Various locations associated with Nurse Edith Cavell in Brussels, 9th January 1919.
  • Mots-clés: EFG1914 / World War I / Belgian Army / British Army, Australian Imperial Force / Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force / buildings, German - institutional: prison / casualties, Belgian graves - formal / casualties, British graves - formal / administration, German - occupation / First World War, Armistice & 9/1/1919 / Brussels, Brabant, Belgium / Children / Children and war
  • Fournisseur: Imperial War Museums
  • Droits: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Couleur: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound