Alice Fitzgerald's Marie Depage and Edith Cavell medals

Alice Fitzgerald's Marie Depage and Edith Cavell medals

Edith Cavell was a British nurse working in German-occupied Belgium who was executed in 1915 by the Germans for helping 200 Allied soldiers escape. Marie Depage was a Belgian nurse, and wife of Dr. Antoine Depage. She was killed on May 7, 1915 in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. The Commission de l’Ecole belge d’infirmières diplômées, the nursing school founded by Dr. Depage, issued this circular bronze medal in 1919, designed by Armand Bonnetain, manufactured by Fonson and Sons of Belgium. Medal features jugate busts of Edith Cavell and Marie Depage in nursing uniforms facing the left with an arching olive branch behind their heads on the right side of the image; raised lettering around the rim on the front; raised lettering on a plain reverse. Inscriptions Front: "MARIE DEPAGE/EDITH CAVELL". Back: "1915/REMEMBER!"

Commission de l’Ecole belge d’infirmières diplômées
Armand Bonnetain
Fonson and Sons, Belgium

1919

Diameter: 2.25 in

Artifacts 712A and 718A

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