Anne Dawson

Anne Dawson MBE (29 October 1896 – 8 October 1989) was a British secret agent in occupied Belgium in the First World War. She worked for the GHQ Wallinger London unit in 1917–18, reporting to Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick who was based in Rotterdam. Dawson was one of only two known British female agents operating behind German lines in Flanders, the other being Edith Cavell who had been a long time resident of Belgium before the war.