Beccles InnerWheel club members are giving short talks on famous women. First talk given by Vice President Gail Harris was on Edith Cavell a famous nurse of the First World War , executed for treason by German firing squad in 1915. Her body was brought back to Norwich and buried in the grounds of the Cathedral in 1919. Resulting from the talk 8 members went by bus to Norwich and after stopping for coffee by the river Wensum they arrived at the Cathedral where they visited Edith’s grave, a recently installed memorial and saw 14 paintings by Brian Wheldan depicting Edith Cavell’s life.
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