Edith Cavell

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XII, Issue 3, 1 July 1919, Page 106

Edith Cavell

During last month we read m the cable news an account of the memorial service m Westminster Abbey, held m honour of the martyred nurse, whose remains wore exhumed and brought back to rest m her own land. It was reported that never before had there been so great a procession of women as gathered together to do honour to the late Nurse Cavell. It was on May 14th that — after being exhumed on March 17th and resting m a little chamber draped with Belgian flags — her body was brought to England m a British warship and handed over to the naval and military authorities at Dover. From there it was taken, escorted by a naval, military and civic procession, with pall-bearers of the Army Nursing Service and members of the W.A.A.C., W.R.N.S., and W.R.A.F., to the station, where it rested for the night m a chapelle ardente specially prepared to receive it.

From Victoria Station the coffin was placed on a gun carriage and escorted by a military procession and the Bands of the Welsh anil Coldstream Guards, to Westminster Abbey, where a full choral memorial service was held. The journey was then resumed to Norwich Cathedral, where at last the honoured remains wero laid to rest m English soil.

The Nurse Cavell monument, which is being sculptured by Sir George Frampton, R.A., who has given his services, is to be erected outside: the National Portrait Gallery. It will be 40 ft. high and a portion of the monument will be of Carrara marble. The monument will probably be ready for erection m July or August. A very beautiful memorial has already been erected m Brussels, depicting Nurse Cavell receivinoescaped soldiers.