Noor Inayat Khan blue plaque

An English Heritage Blue Plaque is seen on the former family home of Second World War British secret agent Noor Inayat Khan in London on August 28, 2020. Soon after her arrival, the Gestapo made multiple arrests and the undercover network she was part of collapsed.Noor chose to stay in France in order to keep communications open with her French comrades. She had revealed nothing to her captors, not even her real name, and her last word was said to have been ‘Liberté!’She was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Gold Star on 16 January 1946 and, on 5 April 1949, the George Cross.

The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday - Friday plus breaking news updatesA little-known hero of the Second World War has been honoured with a Khan, who was of Indian and American heritage, was the first undercover female radio operator to be flown into Nazi-occupied Dubbed an “unlikely spy”, Khan served behind enemy lines in the Special Operations Executive, a body set-up by Sir Winston Churchill in 1940.The heroine began her mission in 1943, but was arrested by the feared Gestapo.

Khan was an undercover radio operator in Nazi-captured France in 1943 … Noor Inayat Khan is the first Indian-origin woman to have a blue plaque honour The plaque will mark her family home on Taviton Street in Bloomsbury, London She … In 1949, Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her bravery, and is now recognised as Britain's first Muslim war heroine in Europe. Despite beatings, she refused to cooperate.On 11 September 1944 she was sent with three other female agents on the 250-mile journey to the Dachau concentration camp.

"It is fitting that Noor Inayat Khan is the first woman of Indian origin to be remembered with a Blue Plaque. The English Heritage tribute will mark the London family home which Khan left, for Nazi-occupied France, as an undercover radio operator in 1943. Along with three other agents Noor was taken to a concentrations camp. She was captured by the German secret police called the Gestapo, and died in September 1944 at Dachau concentration camp. The following year she received paramilitary training at a number of secret locations across Britain.Noor Inayat Khan lived a peripatetic existence for much of her time in England in the 1940s.

Evidence given at the War Crimes trials and by surviving prisoners revealed that Noor was singled out for a night of torture and then, like her comrades, was shot in the head. To use comments you will need to have JavaScript enabled. She was an unlikely spy. {{#replies}} She said: "When Noor Inayat Khan left this house on her last mission, she would never have dreamed that one day she would become a symbol of bravery. Khan was a Muslim woman … Its like a story or movie American film companies will createAs a Muslim,Pakistani girl-I see her as one of my biggest inspirations.She is more than deserving of this!Nazis is the shortened name for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), led by a man called Adolf Hitler.The Nazi party was a political party in Germany established in 1919 in the aftermath of World War One.They believed that Germany was a better country than others and that their people's superiority meant they could, and should, dominate other people. I feel I am making up for all the time lost at Abingdon. Second World War “unlikely” spy Noor Inayat Khan is being honoured with a Blue Plaque. {{#singleComment}}{{value}} Comment{{/singleComment}}{{^singleComment}}{{value}} Comments{{/singleComment}} After Nazi Germany took over France, Noor and her family escaped to England and in November 1940 she joined the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force). A little-known hero of the Second World War has been honoured with a Blue Plaque.  The spy's family home in Taviton Street, Bloomsbury The London blue plaque scheme has announced it will be introducing six new plaques in celebration of women’s achievements in 2020. All material on this site is the property of War Hero Noor Inayat Khan Commemorated With Blue Plaque Something wrong with this article?

By keeping on the move and changing her appearance, she was able to evade the Germans for three-and-a-half months while continuing to transmit messages, via radio and the SOE air force, to Baker Street.