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The Edith Cavell Memorial is an outdoor memorial to Edith Cavell located in
The bust of Cavell in her nurse's uniform was sculpted in Carrara marble by Australian sculptor Margaret Baskerville, who had created a number of civic memorials in Melbourne and in rural towns. The bust sits atop a granite pedestal, which has cast-bronze relief panels on its sides depicting scenes from Cavell's life, arrest and execution. The plaster maquette of the bust is held in the Bayside Gallery in Melbourne.
On the front of the base is the inscription "Edith Cavell, October 12th 1915". At the back of the base is the inscription "Nurse Cavell's last message to the world "But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness to anyone.""
The memorial was unveiled on 12 November 1926 by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel (chief of the general staff). An official guard and a military band from the Victoria Barracks also attended.
The memorial has been a location for
Kings Domain
Kings Domain is an area of parklands in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It surrounds Government House Reserve, the home of the governors of Victoria, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, and the Shrine Reserve incorporating the Shrine of Remembrance.
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, Melbourne, Australia. It consists of a marble bust on a granite pedestal; the bust was sculpted by Margaret Baskerville
Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville (14 September 1861–6 July 1930), was an Australian sculptor, water-colourist, and educator. She is regarded as Victoria's first professional woman sculptor.
Biography
Baskerville was born on 14 September 1 ...
. The memorial was unveiled in November 1926.
Background
Cavell was a British nurse from Norfolk. She was matron at Berkendael Medical Institute inBrussels, Belgium
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, when World War I
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broke out in 1914. In addition to nursing soldiers from both sides without distinction, she assisted some 200 Allied soldiers to escape from German-occupied Belgium. She was arrested in August 1915, court-martialled, found guilty of treason, and shot by a German firing squad on 12 October 1915. Her remains were initially buried in Belgium, but returned to Britain after the war in May 1919 for a state funeral at Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ...
before she was finally buried at Norwich Cathedral.
In 1916, the Edith Cavell Trust Fund was officially inaugurated in Victoria, and received significant financial support. Some of this was used to support war nurses on their return to Australia, and some for the commissioning of the memorial. The Edith Cavell Trust Fund commissioned the bust in 1917; due to the difficulty of obtaining Carrara marble from Italy after the war and the large number of Baskerville's other commissions, the memorial was not completed until 1926.
Description
The bust of Cavell in her nurse's uniform was sculpted in Carrara marble by Australian sculptor Margaret Baskerville, who had created a number of civic memorials in Melbourne and in rural towns. The bust sits atop a granite pedestal, which has cast-bronze relief panels on its sides depicting scenes from Cavell's life, arrest and execution. The plaster maquette of the bust is held in the Bayside Gallery in Melbourne.
On the front of the base is the inscription "Edith Cavell, October 12th 1915". At the back of the base is the inscription "Nurse Cavell's last message to the world "But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness to anyone.""
The memorial was unveiled on 12 November 1926 by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel (chief of the general staff). An official guard and a military band from the Victoria Barracks also attended.
The memorial has been a location for Anzac Day
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, caption = Anzac Day Dawn Service at Kings Park, Western Australia, 25 April 2009, 94th anniversary.
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services and other military commemorations and services.
See also
*Edith Cavell Memorial
The Edith Cavell Memorial is an outdoor memorial to Edith Cavell by Sir George Frampton, in London, United Kingdom. The memorial is sited in St Martin's Place, beside the A400, just outside the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square, north of St ...
, a memorial located in London, England
References
{{reflist Monuments and memorials to women Statues in Australia Cultural depictions of Australian people 1926 sculptures