meets Hoover and Kellogg, 353–4
death, 372
Saxe-Meiningen, Prince Georg of, 165
Schatteman, Emilie, 354
Schleswig-Holstein, Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of, 165
Schlieffen, Alfred von: strategic plan, 127, 131, 139–40, 156, 200, 245
Schwieger, Captain, 220
Scott, Sergeant T.C., 215
Serbia, 124–8
Séverin, Louis: harbors fugitive soldiers, 172, 248
raises money, 207
under suspicion, 233
named in EC’s depositions, 248–9, 261–2
makes deposition, 263
trial, 281, 283, 286, 293–6, 300
death sentence, 300, 305, 331
reprieved and imprisoned at Rheinbach, 336
Shaw, George Bernard: Saint Joan, 365
Shiells, Sergeant, 230
Shoreditch Infirmary: EC appointed Assistant Matron, 83–5
Sinclair, Annie Simpson, 72
Smet, Maria de, 353
Smith, Sister Beatrice, 308, 310, 326
Solvay, Ernest, 120
Souhami, Abraham, 83n
Sovet, Adolphine, 207, 248
Stannard, Joseph, 13
Stanton, Clara (née Böhme), 99, 122 &
n Startin, Rebecca, 57
Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, 22, 25
Stenger, Lieutenant (judge), 282
Steward family, 3
Stocks, Revd. Philip, 112, 155
Stoeber, Eduard: appointed by Sauberzweig, 278
prosecutes at EC’s trial, 283–6, 288–9, 294–6
and sentencing of EC and others, 299, 302–3, 305–6
present at EC’s execution, 326–7
and effect of EC’s death, 339
Kirschen’s effect on, 352
later career and death, 372
Stoops, Hélène, 99
Sturman, M. (of Vecht), 177
Suggers, Dr., 69
Swainsthorpe, Norfolk: workhouse, 16
Swardeston, Norfolk: EC’s birth in, 3, 5–7
vicarage, 8–9, 15
life in, 11–17
Sunday School built and opened, 22
EC holidays in from Brussels, 36
EC revisits, 88, 105, 126
stained glass memorial window of EC in church, 358
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair, 23
Thetford, Jack, 118
Thielmann, Lieutenant (lawyer), 282
Thorndike, (Dame Sybil, 363
Thuliez, Louise: helps fugitive soldiers, 166, 169–71, 202–4, 229, 261–2
on Jeanne de Belleville, 170, 263
raises money, 207
on fugitive soldiers’
indiscretion, 216
under suspicion, 224, 233
in EC’s deposition, 247
interrogated, 255–7
trial with EC, 281–2, 284–5, 287, 289, 292–4, 299
death sentence, 300, 305–6, 331–2
shares cell with Jeanne de Belleville, 305, 318
hears EC leave prison for execution, 326
Villalobar intervenes for, 332, 335
reprieved and imprisoned at Siegburg, 336, 353, 359
testifies against Quien, 368
resistance in Second World War, 373
Condemned to Death, 256
Til, Jacqueline van, 109, 115, 120, 142, 237, 240, 269, 326
Times, The: EC appeals to for money, 137
Tongerlo, Abbey of, 260
Tooting: Fountains Fever Hospital, 46, 48–50, 52
Topping (clerk), 305
Tredegar House, Bow Road, Whitechapel, 57
Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 128
Treves, Frederick, 60
Tunmore, Sergeant Jesse, 160, 197, 210–12
Twining, Louisa: Recollections of Workhouse Visiting, 43
typhoid, 47–8
epidemic (1897), 65–8
United States of America: Marie Depage visits, 219–20
and sinking of Lusitania, 220, 354
enters war (April 1917), 354
see also Whitlock, Brand
Ursel, Duchesse d,’ 208 & n
Vanderlinden, Charles, 205, 215, 221, 261
Velde, Emilie van de, 99, 116
Victor, M., 207
Victoria, Queen: reign, 5
Paul François disparages, 35
Golden Jubilee (1887), 89
death, 110
Villalobar, Marquis de, 146, 313–16, 332, 349
Villiers (British minister in Brussels), 360
Wainwright, Mary Lilian (née Cavell; EC’s sister): childhood, 15, 18
marriage and children, 28, 88
schooling at Laurel Court, 29
trains as nurse, 36
home in Henley, 88
cares for widowed mother, 126, 149n, 177, 359
and EC’s nursing duties in wartime
Belgium, 155
wartime nursing, 180
suggests home for retired nurses as EC memorial, 355
and EC’s exhumation and reburial, 360
at EC’s funeral service, 361
Wainwright, William Longworth: marriage to Lilian, 88
sends Grace Jemmett to EC in Brussels, 113
EC’s mother stays with, 148 & n
requests Sir Edward Gray to intervene for EC, 272, 277, 300–1
learns of EC’s execution, 333, 335
told of Whitlock’s report being released to press, 340
Warming, Anne (EC’s maternal grandmother), 10
Warming, Christianna (EC’s aunt), 10
Warneford, Sub-Lieutenant Reginald, VC, 227–8
Warner, Dr. (of London Hospital), 77
Waschausky, Nurse, 236
Way, Florence, 357–8
Wedgwood, Josiah, 128
Wegels, Nurse, 237
Werthmann, Lt-Colonel (judge), 282
West Runton, Norfolk, 117–18, 123–6
Weymersch, Dr. (of Brussels), 108
White, Sister Millicent, 124, 129, 161, 163, 173, 179, 218
Whitelock, Sister, 218, 230, 237, 270–1
Whitlock, Brand: as US Minister in Brussels, 146
on Goltz Pasha, 147
on US-financed soup kitchens, 152
on von Bissing, 181
on queues at Kommandantur, 222
as channel of communication, 228
on German hatred of English, 246
on informers, 257
intervenes over EC’s arrest and trial, 272–8, 302
illness, 299, 302, 304, 311–12
and death sentence on EC, 302
on Conrad’s kindness, 304
appeals for EC’s pardon, 310–12, 314—15, 317, 333, 344
Muriel Gahan visits, 310
never meets EC or Sauberzweig, 316
notifies Hines of EC’s execution, 332–4
Villalobar visits on behalf of Thuliez and Belleville, 332
on decline in conditions and morale in Belgium, 337
reports passed to press, 340
Lancken accuses of false information, 348–50
prepares report for Washington, 349
takes enforced leave in USA, 350–1, 354
on Sauberzweig’s meeting with Hoover and Kellogg, 353
Whitlock, Mrs. Brand, 310, 317
Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, 10–11
Wilhelm II, Kaiser: accession, 26
at Victoria’s deathbed, 110
and outbreak of Great War, 125
troops refused access to Belgium, 129
absolute rule in Belgium, 145
offers compensation to Dutch on sinking of Catwyk, 204
receives appeals for clemency for sentenced women, 315–16, 335–6
grants reprieves to condemned prisoners, 336
orders no more women shot without personal sanction, 348, 354
abdicates, 358
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 204
Wilkins, Sister Elizabeth: joins Nursing School in Brussels, 113–15, 118
takes charge of School in EC’s absence, 121, 124
in wartime Belgium, 136, 154, 163, 226, 229–30
sewing, 201
knows of EC’s wartime activities, 211, 237
arrested and interrogated, 237–40
and EC’s arrest, 238
freed, 244, 252
visits EC’s prison, 252, 270, 302, 326, 331
manages hospital move to new premises, 253
letters from EC in prison, 265, 270, 300, 313, 323–4
awaits result of EC’s trial, 299
told of death sentence on EC, 308
and Leval’s appeal for EC’s pardon, 310
EC gives money to settle final debts, 323–4
as executor of EC’s will, 324, 331
collects EC’s possessions from prison, 336–7
returns to England, 337
advises on EC’s dress for monument, 356
testifies against Quien at court martial, 368–69
letter from Princess de Croÿ on resistance in Second World War, 372
as Matron of Chard Cottage Hospital, Somerset, 372
Wilson, Woodrow, 332
Witte, Baron de, 169
Wolf, Nurse, 237
Wolf, Valentine de, 99
Woman the Germans Shot, The (film), 363
women: status in Victorian Britain, 5–6, 23
active in social reform, 43–4
executed by Germans after EC’s death, 353
Wood, Private Arthur, 341
Woodhead, Dr. Sims, 66–7
Woolf, Virginia: The Years, 364
workhouse, 80
World War I see Great War
Yarrow, Alfred, 69
Ypres, 186, 207
Zelius-Laidlaw, Alice, 357
Zimmermann, Albert, 351–2
1 Her name rhymes with travel or gravel
2 The graffiti has been preserved
3 bed rest for women before and after giving birth
4 kidney stones
5 From a play by John Maddison Morton, 1847, about two lodgers, Box and Cox, who shared a room: one used it by day, the other by night
6 It is now St. Leonard’s Hospital.
7 My great-grandfather Abraham Souhami had a veneer import business there
8 Renamed rue Franz Merjay after the First World War. Merjay lived at 183 rue de la Culture. He had eight children. He headed a Belgian resistance network and was shot in April 1917
9 Named after an Anglican nun, a pioneer nurse, Sister Dorothy Pattison (1832–78)
10 Eveline Dickinson had been Sister of the Light Treatment Ward at the London Hospital and exposed to radiation
11 Clara Stanton, née Böehme, had trained at the School as a probationer. Her daughter Annie was the first baby born there
12 The Belgians thought these looked like the labels round liqueur bottles
13 Lilian and Longworth Wainwright
14 The Duchess d’Ursel, from a wealthy French family, was charged with giving money to Belgians who wanted to escape Brussels to join the Belgian army
15 I die where I attach myself
16O Belgium, O dearest mother,
To you our hearts, to you our arms,
To you our blood, O Patrie!
We all vow: you shall live!
You shall live, ever great and beautiful
Your unity invincible
With our eternal pledge to
The King, the Law, and Liberty!
17 The German prison to which she was sent
18 ‘dem Feinde Mannschaften zuführt ‘
19 In the third week of September, in the Battle of Loos, General Joffre had ordered a two-pronged British/French attack on German lines. Chlorine gas and 250,000 shells were thrown at the German army. About 25,000 German soldiers died
20 This is from Whitlock’s account. He does not say which lawyer
21 Rowland Ryder, when researching his book Edith Cavell (1975), was meticulous at following up the fate of the men on her “Hotel Register” of guests at the Institute
22 Dunelm, the Latin for Durham, was the surname taken by the city’s bishops. His real name was Handley Moule
23 Miss Gibson had offered special terms for the clergy
24 It was destroyed by German bombs in 1940
25 Ramsay MacDonald feared it would have a bad effect on Anglo-German relations