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Events & EXCURSIONS

Car Show Oct ober 1st Monthly Cars & Coffee Be There- October 15th at the AMC

parking lot, Cool Springs, on Frazier Drive off Mallory Lane in
Brentwood. This is the time to enjoy the beauty of fall
means no club drive in
October.
weather.
From 7-9:30 am- VI P parking until 8:30

Oddment

What five non-royals have received St at e Funerals?

Doubt less you know of Winst on Churchill's st at e funeral. In addit ion t o his many ot her
achievement s, he was also Queen Elizabet h II's first prime minist er. He passed away in 1965.
Do you recognize t hese ot her non-royals honored by a st at e funeral?

Field Marshal Frederick Robert s, Earl Robert s of Kandahar (1914), Edit h Cavell (1919), Field
Marshal Douglas Haig, Earl Haig (1928), and Edward Carson (1935).
Of them all, the story of Edith Cavell, as derived from the Imperial War Museums, is the
most poignant. A British nurse who brought the tenets of the profession to Belgium during
the first World War, she was credited with saving the lives of soldiers from both sides of the
conflict without discrimination. She also was credited with helping 200 Allied soldiers
escape through occupied Belgium. Arrested by the Germans on August 5, 1915, she was
placed in solitary confinement at St. Giles prison in Brussels, then tried as a spy on October

7, 1915, along with 34 other people who took part in the escape network, at court martial
proceedings.
Found guilty, she was sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad on October 12th,

1915. While the execution was legal under international law, it caused outrage amongst the
people of Britain as well as other neutral countries. After the war, her body was exhumed
and returned to Britain in 1919. She was honored at Westminster Abbey followed by
reburial in Norwich Cathedral. A war monument (right) was also erected in her memory,
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