| CAVELL | Edith ___, British nurse executed for helping Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I |
| EDITHCAVELL | English nurse executed in 1915 for assisting Allied soldiers in escaping German-occupied Belgium (5,6) |
| EDITH | English nurse executed by the Germans in World War 1 for helping Allied prisoners to escape (5,6) |
| DEFIANCE | Daniel Craig stars in this 2008 film about Second World War partisans in German-occupied Poland |
| OSLO | German-occupied capital in W.W. II |
| EVANS | Dame Edith ___, British actress (5) |
| FLORENCE | ___ Nightingale, British nurse noted for her work with British soldiers during the Crimean War (8) |
| DYNAMO | Codename for the wartime operation to evacuate Allied soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940 (6) |
| ARNHEM | Where Allied soldiers were a bridge too far in this 1977 film? (6) |
| RARE | Bloody allied soldiers (4) |
| RESIDED | Allied soldiers previously stayed... (7) |
| CHINDIT | Term for an allied soldier in Burma (7) |
| WELFARESTATE | Dole from Kansas has a reputation for helping the less prosperous in society (7,5) |
| MIGRATION | Plane offering provision for helping people travel from one location to another? |
| BRITTAIN | See 2 Dn. British nurse, feminist and pacifist who, in 1933, wrote a bestselling memoir of her First World War experiences (4,8) |
| VERA | British nurse, feminist and pacifist who, in 1933, wrote a bestselling memoir of her First World War experiences (4,8) |
| BENGAL | ... Bay area with British nurse girlfriend |
| BARER | British nurse caught leaving wearing less (5) |
| ARMS | The 1932 adaptation of Hemingway's novel about an ill-fated WW1 romance between an American soldier and a British nurse starred Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper; A Farewell To ... |
| SUPERHEROES | In a painting that sold for a personal record $23 million on March 23, street artist Banksy compares British nurses in the Covid era to these |
