Royals honour executed nurse

over 3 years in Otago Daily Times

King George V and Queen Mary at a wreath-laying at the Tir National rifle range in Schaerbeek, Belgium where Nurse Edith Cavell was executed in 1915 by the German occupying forces. — Otago Witness, 4.7.1922

When the King and Queen went to the Tir National (rifle butts) with a memorial wreath, they stood on the spot where the German firing party had stood when they shot Nurse Cavell.

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