Posthumous Award To British War Heroine
(19 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. Britain has awarded the George Cross to a woman whom Germans shot at Dachau prison camp in September, 1944. She was Miss Nora Inayat Khan, assistant section officer of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. She was the first British woman intelligence officer landed in France during the war. The official citation says: “She displayed the most conspicuous courage, both moral and physical, over a period of more than 12 months before the Germans shot her.” Miss Inayat Khan had a brilliant academic career. She was the author oX a number of children’s books published In London, Paris and New York.
She joined the W.A.A.F. in 1940. She landed secretly from a plane in enemy-occupied France in June, 1943. She was then 29.
She was betrayed to the Gestapo and arrested while working with French resistance groups. Constant interrogation failed to persuade her to give the Germans any information about her colleagues or her work.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 7
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