Edith Cavell postcard sold at auction for €1,000

According to reports in the BBC, a postcard written by nurse Edith Cavell to her mother has been sold at auction for €1,000. 

The postcard, which has the words "Mundesley much changed & much grown" written in pencil, has sold at an auction in Spain.

Auctioneers, International Autograph Europe S.L Malaga, said the postcard had "some extremely minor, light age wear" and was of the chapel on Mundesley High Street, Norfolk.

Cavell was born in Swardeston, near Norwich, in 1865 where her father was the local vicar. In 1907, Edith moved to Brussels to assist with the running of a new nursing school. After the outbreak of the war she assisted hundreds of soldiers escape.

Edith Cavell stood trial and then executed by a German firing squad for treason on 12 October 1915 at the age of 49. The case was used to good effect by Britain for propaganda purposes.

In 1919 her body was returned to the UK.