Website/Catalog  (17 Feb 2015)  
 
Registered Name: 'Edith Cavell'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Edith Cavell
HT, ly, 1918, Chaplin Bros.; flowers pale lemon-white, large, dbl.

Book  (Dec 1999)  Page(s) 830.  Includes photo(s).
 
Edith Cavell was executed as a spy by the Germans during World War I... British nurse, shot for spying, 1915. [Her last words were:] I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Don't think of me [as a heroine]. Think of me only as a nurse who tried to do her duty... I am glad to die for my country."

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 397.  
 
Edith Cavell Hybrid Tea. Chaplin 1918. The author cites information from different sources... A large white rose... Edith cavell, heroic nurse in World War I...

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 289.  
 
There was a cream Large-flowered Rose called 'Edith Cavell' also. It appears to be extinct.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 150.  
 
Edith Cavell. Hybrid Tea, light yellow, 1918, Chaplin Bros. Description.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 248.  
 
Described as a single white Hybrid Tea of 1918

[possibly an error. Refer also The Old Rose Adventurer p397 where it is described as ...double, carried singly]

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 134.  
 
Cavell, Edith (HT) Chaplin 1918; whitish pale lemon, large, double, high-centered, growth 6/10, upright. Sangerhausen

Website/Catalog  (1922)  Page(s) 30.  
 
General List. (146) Edith Cavell (H.) (Chaplin) 2. An ivory white variety of splendid shape, growth and flowering. Whites are a scarce colour, and this is certainly one that should be well tried. Must not be confused with the red sport from Orleans called 'Miss Edith Cavell' in the 1922 list, or with 'F. K. Druschki', which is quite distinct

Book  (1922)  Page(s) 117.  
 
H. H. Thomas. Impressions of the Great Summer Show. ….I am not sure of the merits of Edith Cavell as a garden Rose….

Book  (1922)  Page(s) 379.  
 
A Descriptive List of Roses in Commerce.
Edith Cavell (Hybrid Tea), Chaplin Bros. 1919: Flower pale lemon white; buds long and pointed. Growth strong and upright.  Exhibition, cutting.