Bust: Noor Inayat Khan bust
Erection date: 8/11/2012
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Noor Inayat Khan, 1914 - 1944, GC, MBE, Croix de Guerre
Unveiled by HRH The Princess Royal on 8 November 2012
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Noor Inayat Khan was an SOE agent infiltrated into occupied France. She was executed at Dachau Concentration Camp. Her last word was "Liberte".
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Noor lived nearby and spent some quiet time in this garden.
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The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret organisation set up by Winston Churchill to help resistance movements during WWII.
Installed by the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust
Sculptor Karen Newman
The Guardian reports: "the first stand-alone memorial to an Asian woman in the UK" and elsewhere we read that it is "one of the few anywhere in the world to a Muslim woman.
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this memorial (in French).
Site: Noor Inayat Khan bust (1 memorial)
WC1, Gordon Square
Close to the house, 4 Taviton Street, where Khan lived as a child in 1914 and where she returned while training for the SOE during WW2.
