Spioneren voor de Britten in de Noorderkempen

My great-uncle 'uncle' Frans De Bont was a spy for the British Army during the First World War. He brought messages from Turnhout. These were hidden in a hollow key and brought it through the large gate in the Wire of Death in Ravels to his native village Weelde. His sister-in-law (my great-aunt), Maria Hortentia De Bont-Van Ael, smuggled the messages from Weelde across the Dutch border into the e…