The memorial to Cavell outside Norwich Cathedral

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Following Cavell's death, many memorials were created around the world to remember her. A patriotic song, "Remember Nurse Cavell" (words by Gordon V. Thompson, music by Jules Brazil) appeared in 1915

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he name Mount Edith Cavell was given in 1916 to a massive peak in Canada's Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, where a memorial tower added to St Mary & St George Anglican Church was also dedicated to her. Memorial gardens are dedicated to her in Inverness, Scotland and Ararat, Victoria, the latter established by the Mother's Club of the State School in 1931. This reflects her popularity throughout the Commonwealth, with a bust of her atop a marble and stone memorial in Kings Domain in Melbourne, Australia.  A memorial statue by Henry Alfred Pegram was unveiled on 12 October 1918 by Queen Alexandra in the grounds of Norwich Cathedral, during the opening of a home for nurses, which also bore her name.

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In the Church of England's calendar of saints, the day appointed for the commemoration of Cavell is 12 October. This is a memorial in her honour rather than formal canonisation, and so not a "saint's feast day" in the traditional sense. She is mentioned on the war memorial in the grounds of Sacred Trinity Church, Salford, Greater Manchester, England and the memorial to the 35 people executed by the German army in Tir National in Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium, whilst a portrait of her is also included in the mural of heroic women by Walter P. Starmer unveiled in 1921 in the church of St Jude-on-the-Hill in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London. St Mary's Church, Swardeston holds her portrait and the village still holds an annual flower festival on 12 October in her memory.

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There are memorial plaques to her in both Peterborough Cathedral and St Leonard's Hospital, Hackney, London, whilst a blue plaque in West Runton, Norfolk outside Cumberland Cottage reads "Edith Cavell 1865 - 1915 Nursing Pioneer Spent Holidays Here 1908–1914". A joint memorial to Cavell and Marie Depage by Paul Du Bois is sited in Brussels, whilst a stone memorial to her in Paris was one of two statues that Adolf Hitler ordered to be destroyed on his 1940 visit (the other being that of Charles Mangin).

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Source: Wikipedia