Carl Hans Lody
✓ Source-basedstableGerman naval reserve officer; spy (1877-1914)
Lived 1877 to 1914 · aged 37
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Carl Hans Lody, alias Charles A. Inglis, was a reserve officer of the Imperial German Navy who spied in the United Kingdom in the first few months of the First World War.
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Louise Storz, Lody's wife from October 1912 to March 1914
Lody's telegraph to "Adolf Burchard" in Sweden, which revealed his assumed identity to the British authorities
Lody's letter of 4 September 1914, reporting as true the unfounded rumour that Russian troops had landed in Scotland and were travelling south by train
The British Guard Fleet anchored in the Firth of Forth. Lody sought to gather information on Royal Navy ships in the Firth during his stay in Edinburgh.
Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street), Dublin, where Lody and his companion John Lee stayed at the Gresham Hotel (in the centre left of the photograph) from 27 September to 2 October 1914Awards 1
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Lived 1877 to 1914 · aged 37
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