Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edith Cavell with Don and Jack NPG x200187

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

Born and educated in Norfolk within a family with strong religious beliefs, Cavell worked as a governess in Essex and Brussels. After returning to England to help care for her ill father, she trained as a nurse and by 1907 became the matron of a nurse's training school in Brussels; this school revolutionised nursing and saw it transformed into a serious profession. When the Germans invaded Belgium in 1914 Cavell began to assist in the escape of allied soldiers, with the school becoming a crucial... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.