Khan, Noor Inayat, 1914-1944

Noor Inayat Khan was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). As an SOE agent under the codename Madeleine she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during World War II. Inayat Khan was betrayed and captured, and executed at Dachau concentration camp. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service, the highest civilian decoration for gallantry in the United Kingdom.