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Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Peterborough
Town
Peterborough
County
Cambridgeshire
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Ceremony
  • Dedicated
    Date: 9 December 1916
    Attended by: The Dean of Peterborough
  • Presented
    Date: 2007
    Attended by: The lamp was donated to Peterborough Cathedral by Here Serene Highness Princess Elisabeth de Croy et de Solre
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Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
46481

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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 Ref: TL 19375 98639
Denomination: Church of England

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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
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Cavell, Edith
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Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Full name, details of past employment, date and place of death.
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Tablet
    Measurements: depth 60, height 1220, width 600
    Materials: Marble - Irish
  • Lamp or Lighting
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Metal
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Sponsorship
Private
Details: Plaque: Former teaching colleagues and pupils. Lamp: Princess Elisabeth de Croy et de Solre
Responsibility
Peterborough Cathedral
Reference
  • 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).

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