FUTURE EVENTS
Agenda Future Events of Edith Cavell Commemoration
- 26th April to 13th May 2019
Oostende Town Hall, Vindictivelaan 1, 8400 Oostende – Edith Cavell Exhibition
Opening times: Monday to Friday from 09h00 to 17h00 - 26th April 2019 at 11h00
Oostende Town Hall, Vindictivelaan 1, 8400 Oostende
Opening of the Edith Cavell Exhibition with a Press Conference - 12th May 2019 at 10h00
Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk, Prins Boudewijnstraat, 8400 Oostende
Ecumenical church service followed by a “flag” ceremony. - 12th May 2019 at 10h30
Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, Rue Capitaine Crespel 29, 1050 Bruxelles
Edith Cavell Memorial Service - 12th May 2019 at 12h00
Oostende Town Hall, Vindictivelaan 1, 8400 Oostende - Reception offered by the Mayor. - 14th May 2019 in the morning and early afternoon
St Mary’s Parish Church, Cannon St, Dover CT16 1BY, UK
A peal of Grandshire Triples, lasting just over three hours, will be rung as it was one hundred years ago on 14th May 1919 in honour of the return of Edith Cavell’s mortal remains to the UK. The bells were deeply muffled in token of respect to Edith Cavell whose body arrived in Dover during the ringing and rested in the town hall till the following morning.
St Mary’s Parish Church will also show a series of ten photographs that portray the journey of Edith Cavell’s mortal remains from Brussels to Norwich via Oostende, Dover and London on 13th, 14th and 15th May 1919. - 15th May 2019 at 12h00
Westminster Abbey, London
Memorial service for Edith Cavell and Florence Nightingale. - 15th May 2019 at 19h00
Norwich Cathedral - Memorial service for Edith Cavell.