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    Memorial

    Edith Cavell, Peterborough

    Edith Cavell

    Source: Copyright Jane King

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    Current Location

    The plaque hangs on a pillar in the south aisle, near the Canon's door., Peterborough Cathedral, Minster Precincts, Peterborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 1XS, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TL 19375 98639

    Denomination

    Church of England

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    46481
    Description
    Black Irish marble tablet, having a curved top and bottom, with a narrow beaded border. A carved profile of Edith Cavell, within a laurel wreath, is above the incised lettering of the inscription. Above the plaque hangs the lamp used by the Resistance group to which Edith Cavell was affiliated. The lamp was used to guide more than 250 Allied personnel from occupied Belgium through the forest to safety.
    Inscription
    RIGHT DEAR IN THE SIGHT OF THE/ LORD IS THE DEATH OF HIS SAINTS/ IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE/ CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE OF/ EDITH LOUISA CAVELL/ WHO DEVOTED HER LIFE TO NURSING/ THE SICK AND FOR HELPING BELGIAN/ FRENCH AND BRITISH SOLDIERS TO/ ESCAPE WAS ON OCTOBER 12TH 1915/ PUT TO DEATH BY THE GERMANS/ AT BRUSSELS WHERE SHE HAD/ NURSED THEIR WOUNDED THIS/ TABLET WAS PLACED HERE BY THE/ TEACHERS PUPILS AND FRIENDS/ OF HER OLD SCHOOL IN/ LAUREL COURT
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    1
    Died
    1
    Information shown
    Full name, details of past employment, date and place of death.
    Maker(s)
    • MR TEMPLE LUSHINGTON MOORE, Designer

    • John Thompson and Son, Makers

    • Mr Mahomet Thomas Phillips of Huntly Grove, Peterborough, Stone Carver

    Sponsor Type
    private
    Sponsored By
    Plaque: Former teaching colleagues and pupils. Lamp: Princess Elisabeth de Croy et de Solre

    Ceremonies

    Presented

    2007

    The lamp was donated to Peterborough Cathedral by Here Serene Highness Princess Elisabeth de Croy et de Solre

    Dedicated

    9 December 1916

    The Dean of Peterborough

    Custodian
    Peterborough Cathedral

    Components

    Tablet

    Height: 1220

    Width: 600

    Depth: 60


    Made from: Marble - Irish


    Condition: Good


    Lamp or Lighting

    Made from: Metal


    Condition: Good


    • War Memories, by Princess Marie de Croy, published by Macmillan & Co Ltd in 1932. Peterborough Cathedral Order of Service, dated 12 October 2009: the celebration for the life of Her Serene Highness Princess Elisabeth de Croy et de Solre. (The Order of Service referred to her donation in 2007 of the Resistance lamp that now hangs above the Edith Cavell memorial in Peterborough Cathedral. Her Serene Highness had been given the lamp by her aunt, Princess Marie de Croy, who had been arrested with Edith Cavell in 1915).