# Nurse Cavell — Now It Can Be Told character guide

> Nurse Cavell in Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Cavell

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

British nurse executed by the Germans.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/i)

Referenced in the context of German justifications for her execution as a legal act of war.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/iii)

Quoted as saying patriotism is 'not enough,' used to critique the limits of nationalistic faith.

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