“Women risked their lives defying Germany’s occupying armies”
EVERY OCTOBER AT LIFE’S GREEN, OUTSIDE THE south transept of Norwich Cathedral, a graveside service is held. It remembers a remarkable British nurse, who treated wounded soldiers – on both sides – in German-occupied Belgium during the First World War. Edith Cavell had been working in Belgium since 1907. During the war, she helped Allied soldiers and civilians of military age escape to neutral Netherlands. This was an offence under German military law, and carried the death penalty.