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Noor Inayat Khan

(Hindustani, (Urdu): نور عنایت خان, Devanagari: नूर इनायत ख़ान)
Moscow 1914 - Dachau 1944
Allied SOE agent during the Second World War
(Wikipedia)

Karen Newman
2012

Description

Bronze bust.

Inscription(s)

NOOR
inayat khan
1914-1944
G.C., M.B.E.
Croix de Guerre

Unveiled by
HRH The Princess Royal
on 8 Novembr 2012

Noor Inayat Khan
was an SOE agent
infiltrated into
occupied France.
She was executed
at Dachau
Concentration Camp
Her last word was:
"LIBERTE"

The Special Operations
Executive (SOE)
was a secret
organisation set up
by Winston Churchill
to help
Resistance movements
during WWII

Noor lived nearby
and spent
some quiet time
in this garden

Signature

Karen Newman | 2012

Sculptor

Karen Newman, British sculptress (Website).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, List of public art in Camden.
Bob Speel, London sculpture.
Andrew Kershman, London's Monuments (London: Metro Publ., 2013), p. 246.

Locatie (N 51°31'29" - W 0°7'51") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gblo113; Photograph: 7 August 2014
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