Edith Cavell - Burial and Memorials

Burial and Memorials

Cavell's remains were returned to Britain after the war and a state funeral was held at Westminster Abbey. On 19 May 1919, her body was reburied at the east side of Norwich Cathedral; a graveside service is still held each October. The railway van that conveyed her remains from Dover to London is kept as a memorial on the Kent and East Sussex Railway and is usually open to view at Bodiam railway station.

Following Cavell's death, many memorials were created around the world to remember her. One of the first was the one unveiled in October 1918 by Queen Alexandra on the grounds of Norwich Cathedral, near a home for nurses which also bore her name.

In the calendar of the Church of England the day appointed for the commemoration of Edith Cavell is 12 October.

Other honours include:

Memorials:

• a stone memorial, including a statue of Cavell, adjacent to Trafalgar Square in London, UK
• a memorial in Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough, UK
• a memorial by Henry Alfred Pegram outside Norwich Cathedral, UK
• a marble and stone memorial near The Shrine in Melbourne, Australia
• an inscription on a war memorial, naming the 35 people executed by the German army in a place called Tir national on the Schaerbeek municipality
• a dedication on the war memorial on the grounds of Sacred Trinity Church, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
• Monument to Edith Cavell and Marie Depage in Brussels, Belgium, by Paul Du Bois.
• a stone memorial statue by Canadian sculptor R. Tait McKenzie in the garden behind the Red Cross National (U.S.) Headquarters, 1730 E Street, NW Washington, DC, USA, in the block south of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and north of the Daughters of the American Revolution building.

Medical and Nursing facilities named in her honour::

• Edith Cavell Surgery in Streatham, London
• Edith Cavell Hospital, in Peterborough, England, UK, where she received part of her education
• the Edith Cavell Hospital in the Brussels borough of Uccle (Ukkel), Belgium
• Sanatorium Edith Cavell, Obourg, Belgium
• a wing of Homerton Hospital, Hackney, London, UK
• a wing of Toronto Western Hospital, Canada
• Cavell Building, Quinte Children's Treatment Centre, Belleville, Ontario, Canada
• University of East Anglia, Norwich, named its School of Nursing Sciences building the Edith Cavell Building (ECB), when it opened in 2006
• Edith Cavell Regional School of Nursing, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada
• Edith Cavell Care Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada,
• a ward in the Whittington Hospital in Archway, London
• a building at the Medical School, University of Queensland, Australia
• The Edith Cavell Home, Hospital, and Village (a retirement village) in Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Cavell Gardens Care Home, Vancouver, Canada; the site was Edith Cavell Hospital from 1955 to 2000

Streets:

• Cavell Road, Billericay, Essex, England, UK
• Cavell Road, Norwich, England, UK
• Cavell Road, Dudley, West Midlands (formerly Worcestershire), England, UK
• Edith Cavell Drive Steeple Bumpstead, England, UK
• Cavell Avenue, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
• Cavell Street (formerly known as Bedford Street), running next to the London Hospital in Whitechapel, London, where Cavell trained
• Cavell Street, West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Cavell Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Cavell Street, Reefton, New Zealand
• Nurse Cavell Lane, Paparoa, Northland, New Zealand
• Rue Edith Cavell / Edith Cavellstraat, a street in Uccle/Ukkel, Brussels, Belgium
• Edith Cavellstraat, a street in Ostend/Oostende, Belgium
• Rue Edith Cavell, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
• Avenue Edith-Cavell, in Nice, France
• Rue Miss Cavell, Arques, France
• Rue Edith Cavell, Le Havre, France
• Rua Edith Cavell, a street in Lisbon, Portugal
• Cavell Drive in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Cavell Drive in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
• Cavell Avenue in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• Cavell Avenue in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
• Edith Cavell Boulevard, a road in Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada
• Cavell Avenue, in Trenton, New Jersey, USA
• Cavell Street, Westland, Michigan, USA
• a street in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Edith Cavell Street in Port Louis, Mauritius
• Cavell Avenue in The Danforth neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Avenue Miss Cavell, St-Maur-Des-Fosses, France
• Cavell Way, Pendleton, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
• Cavell Way, Maidenbower, Crawley, West Sussex, England, UK
• Cavell Walk, Stevenage, England, UK
• Edith Cavell Way, Shooters Hill, London, UK
• Edith Cavell Court, Kingston Upon Hull, England, UK
• Cavell Close, Woodbeck, Nottinghamshire, England, UK (This has been demolished)
• Edith Cavell Bridge, Queenstown, New Zealand]

Schools:

• Cavell Primary School, Norwich, England, UK
• Edith Cavell School, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
• Edith Cavell Elementary School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Edith Cavell Lower School in Bedford, UK
• Edith Cavell Elementary School, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
• a middle school in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, which closed in 1987
• an elementary school in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, which was later renamed to S.F. Howe
• Wymondham College in Norfolk, UK, has a boarding block named after her
• Cavell House, dark blue house at Jersey College for Girls
• Cavell House, green house at Queen Mary School, Mumbai, India
• Edith Cavell House, green house at Barnes School, Deolali, India
• Cavell House, the fourth, blue house of St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School, Brisbane, Australia
• Cavell House, blue house at Sheringham High School, Norfolk, England, UK
• Cavell House, Northlands School (founded 1920), Olivos, Argentina
• Cavell House, green house at Pratt Memorial School, Kolkata, India
• Cavell House, red house at Cliff Park Junior School, Gorleston.

Other:

• Cavell Gardens, Inverness, Scotland, UK
• Cavell Park, a playground in Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Mount Edith Cavell, a peak in Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, named for her in 1931
• Cavell Corona, a geological feature on Venus
• Edith Cavell Bridge at Arthur's Point, near Queenstown, New Zealand
• The Edith Cavell Trust was established by the New South Wales Nurses' Association which provides scholarships to nurses in New South Wales, Australia
• The Edith Cavell Nursing Scholarship Fund, a philanthropy of the Dallas County Medical Society Alliance Foundation providing scholarships to exceptional nursing students in Dallas, Texas, USA, and the surrounding area
• Cavell House, a guest house in Clevedon, Somerset, UK, where she spent some of her childhood
• Miss Edith Cavell, a variety of rose first bred in 1917 is named after her.
• a YWCA camp in Lexington, Michigan, USA
• Edith became a popular name for French and Belgian girls after her execution. The French chanteuse Édith Piaf, born two months after Cavell was executed, was the best known of these
• Radio Cavell 1350am. Broadcasting to the staff and patients on The Royal Oldham Hospital Charity Radio
• The Edith Cavell public house, Tombland, Norwich, England, UK
• The Nurse Cavell Van is the prototype passenger luggage van that transported her remains from Dover to London during her repatriation.
• a car park in Peterborough's Queensgate shopping centre (until November 2011 when it was renamed as a colour)
• Edith Cavell Chapter of the Daughters of the British Empire in Houston, Texas, United States