Service At Westminster Abbey - Nurse Cavell (1915)

Title reads: “HOMECOMING OF A HEROINE. Impressive scenes at the arrival of Nurse Cavell’s remains“. London. High angled shots area in front of abbey, soldiers stand in row along pavement, horse-drawn hearse waits on road. Shot of pallbearers carrying coffin between lines of soldiers and through arched entrance of abbey. Intertitle reads: “A solemn service at the Abbey and reverent and silent crowds was London’s tribute to Edith Cavell - Nurse and Martyr“. High angled shot women in military uniforms marching along sea front road - probably in Dover, Kent. MS soldiers marching with guns pointed downwards. Nice shot row of nurses & military women saluting. MS various people - military & civilian- - outside hospital named for Cavell (“Hopital-Ecole Edith Cavell“ - in Belgium) Still photograph head shot of Cavell. American cataloguer’s note: British nurse Edith Cavell was killed by the Germans in Belgium during World War One. Note: titles do not correspond with shots - appears to have be