Edith Louisa Cavell ( ; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service through the spy ring known as La Dame Blanche. Cavell was arrested, convicted following court-martial under German military law of violating medical neutrality, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, General Traugott von Sauberzweig, the military governor of Brussels, refused to commute her sentence. The night before her execution, Cavell said, "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone". She was executed the next morning in the presence of Imperial German Army medic and war poet Gottfried Benn. Cavell, who was 49 at the time of her death, was already notable as a pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium. Wikipedia
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