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Formal photograph of Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan

Photographs, In Storage, PC76/24/24

Noor Inayat Khan was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Recruited as a Special Operation Executive agent she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during the Second World War. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross in 1949 for 'most conspicuous courage, both moral and physical over a period of more than 12 months.'