Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 4946803

Reference: WO372/23

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D6072567
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

UPP: GBM/MCI/4951603

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 7733344

Title: Wikipedia entry

Description: Brief life story

Connected by: Sue54478

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthe_Cnockaert
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Source information

ID: 7733353

Title: Marthe Cnockaert

Description: Taken from http://wartimespyladies.blogspot.co.uk/2013_12_01_archive.html with thanks

Connected by: Sue54478

Source information

ID: 9210486

Title: Entry for Marthe McKenna (nee Cnockaert)

Description: Encyclopedia.com

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mckenna-marthe-1893-1969
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: Matches Medal Index Card

Source information

ID: 9210495

Name: Published in New York, 1933

Reference: HathiTrust Digital Library

Title: I was a spy! By Marthe McKenna

Description: With her medical studies cut short by the 1914 German invasion, her house burned down and her father arrested for suspected‘sharpshooting’, it was perhaps unsurprising that the multi-lingual Marthe Mckenna (née Cnockaert, codename ‘Laura’) was recruited by British Intelligence. At the time she worked as a nurse tending the wounds of occupying soldiers, and as a waitress in her parents’ café in the Belgian border town of Roulers. I Was a Spy! is McKenna’s vivid narrative of these breath-taking adventures as she, aided by a gallant band of loyal locals, goes undercover to sabotage enemy phone lines, report suspicious activity or train movements, and even instigate an aerial attack on a planned visit by the Kaiser.

Connected by: Charlotte33

Additional: Matches Encyclopedia entry

Source information

ID: 9210504

Name: Entry written by Deborah E. Van Seters

Title: Entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Description: ODNB website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-67491;jsessionid=DF8A8820AD95E4CCDC0BA27C40E554DD
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: Matches Encyclopedia entry

Source information

ID: 9210513

Name: Publication date: 26 August 1919; Supplement: 31526; Page: 10858

Title: Mentioned in the London Gazette

Description: Accessed via Gazette website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31526/supplement/10858
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: Matches Medal Index Card

Source information

ID: 9210521

Name: Class: WO 329; Piece Number: 2356

Title: WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920

Description: Accessed via Ancestry website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=OqI21&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-c&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsln=cnockaert&gsln_x=0&cpxt=1&cp=4&MSAV=1&uidh=uh1&pcat=39&h=3957608&recoff=6&dbid=5119&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: Matches Medal Index Card

Key to Event Icons

Event Type	Event Icon
appointments
awards
birth
burial
children
commission
dates
death
discharge
education
employment
enlistment
events
hospitalisation
internment
location
marriage
missing
service
sibling
theatres