11 Oct 2015

War Report 57 -11 October 2015

From New Zealand in World War I, 8:53 pm on 11 October 2015

A letter from a wounded New Zealander serving with the Australian Forces and frustration in New Zealand about having no news of what was happening with providing graves for New Zealanders killed at Gallipoli. First reports of the Edith Cavell tragedy "Huns Execute Woman!!" Belgian-born Maria Hull of Motueka, who died in 1980 aged 91 and who was known as the "Angel of Antwerp" for her care of Allied soldiers recalls working with Edith Cavell. Nurse Cavell had assisted Allied men to get to neutral Holland.

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