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La Dame Blanche at 1914-1918 Online Encyclopedia.British and German Espionage from Neutral Holland 1914–1918. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. Un réseau de renseignements de la Grande Guerre. The Belgian Tourist Office – The official website of the Tourism and Convention Bureau of Brussels and Wallonia. A monument to the Dame Blanche resistance organization has been built. ^ "Resistance in Belgium in World War Two". La Dame Blanche was the codename for an underground intelligence network which operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I.British and German Espionage from Neutral Holland 1914-1918. It is the Chapelle Saint-Maurice (mémorial Walthère Dewé), Rue Coupée 94, Liège, Belgium. He was shot and killed while trying to avoid capture by the Germans in 1944.Ī monument to the Dame Blanche resistance organization has been built near the city of Liège. ĭuring the second German occupation of Belgium in World War II, Dewé used the experience of the Dame Blanche network to start a new network, codenamed Clarence. The network was known for its high proportion of female members women may have made up as much as 30 percent of its total personnel. īy the end of the war, its 1,300 agents covered all of occupied Belgium, northern France and – through a collaboration with Louise de Bettignies' network – occupied Luxembourg. After the end of the war, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, head of the Secret Service, estimated that Dame Blanche had supplied as much as 70 percent of all military intelligence collected by Allied intelligence services world-wide, not merely that from German-occupied Belgium and northern France. After constant infiltration by German counter-espionage it reverted to British Secret Service (later known as MI6) at Rotterdam where they were handled by Captain Henry Landau. The network was at first affiliated to the British military intelligence service of Cecil Aylmer Cameron via Folkstone. In order to save the group, Dewé took control and developed it under the name Dame Blanche with his friend Herman Chauvin. The decision resulted from the arrest and execution of Dewé's cousin, Dieudonné Lambrecht, who had himself founded an intelligence network codenamed "Lambrecht". The Dame Blanche network was founded in 1916 by Walthère Dewé, an engineer working in a telegraph and telephone company in Brussels. Chapel Saint-Maurice "Memorial Walthère Dewé" in 2011