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A lot has been written about Mata Hari, but not enough about Marthe Mathilde Cnockaert. She was born on October 28, 1892 in Westrozebeke in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Cnockaert began studying at the medical school at Ghent University, but her studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Great War. In August 1914, German troops razed her village, burning her home down and temporarily separating her family. Having trained as a nurse, Cnockaert gained a job at a German military hospital located in the village, where she was valued for her medical training and her multi-lingual skills, speaking English and German as well as French and Flemish. She was awarded the Iron Cross by the Germans for her medical service. The following year, Cnockaert was transferred to the German Military Hospital in Roulers, where she was reunited with her family who had also moved there after the destruction of their home. Around this time, she was approached by a family friend and former neighbour, who revealed to Cnockaert that she was a British intelligence agent, and wished to recruit her to an Anglo-Belgian intelligence network operating in the town. For two years, Cnockaert (codenamed "Laura") used her cover as a nurse and her frequent proximity to German military personnel, both the hospital and as a waitress at her parents' café, to gather important military intelligence for the British and their allies. Her exploits during the war included destroying a telephone line that a local priest was using to spy for the Germans, and obtaining details of a planned but canceled visit by Kaiser Wilhelm II for a British aerial attack. At one stage, her German lodger, tried to recruit her to spy on the British. Cnockaert attempted to relay harmless but seemingly important information to him for a short time, but when operating as a double agent became too difficult, she arranged for him to be killed. She discovered a disused sewer tunnel system located underneath a German ammunition depot and placed the explosives to destroy the ammo dump. However, this operation led to her exposure and capture when she lost her watch, engraved with her initials while placing the dynamite. In November 1916, Cnockaert was sentenced to death for her espionage, but her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment due to her Iron Cross honour. She served two years in a prison in Ghent, but was released in 1918 when the war ended. She later became a novelist and is credited with writing over a dozen spy novels in addition to her memoirs and short stories.

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