Inverness children honour Edith Cavell
Inverness Meeting lay wreath at memorial
Children from Inverness Meeting laid a wreath of red and white poppies at the Edith Cavell Memorial in Inverness on Sunday 2 October.
Edith Cavell was a British nurse in Brussels during world war one who saved the lives of soldiers from all sides without distinction. She helped over 200 Allied soldiers to escape and was shot by a German firing squad on 12 October 1915 for her actions.
Friends do not have permission to lay a white wreath only and the red and white wreath has to be removed two days before Remembrance Sunday.
An inscription, written by Oriole Hall of Inverness Meeting, states: ‘Friends, we come together today to lay this wreath to remember all those all over the world who have died in war or because of war, the tortured, the innocent, the starving and the exiled, the imprisoned, the oppressed and the disappeared.
‘We pray that we – men, women and children – may become true makers of peace. May we see the people of the world as our brothers and sisters, as one community. May all injustice, violence and oppression give way to fairness, gentleness and compassion as we pray for the day when war is abolished as a way of resolving conflict.’
