The Unknown Warrior and the Cavell Van

32pp stapled booklet, with colour illustrations, in illustrated stiff card covers.  8vo.  A little gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight. The Cavell Van - a prototype parcels van built by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1919 - is so called because it was the vehicle used to repatriate the body of Edith Cavell following the end of the first world war.  Cavell, a pioneering nurse active in the behind the lines resistance in Belgium in the early days of the war, was executed under German military law in 1915.