Monument Details

Woman Officers Dachau Execution Plaque - Noor Khan, SOE

Details:

In the Dachau crematorium.

Plaque

A inscribed plaque remembering four woman of the British Military of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) who were exectuted at Dachau on September 12, 1944. The names include one woman who had American origins, Noorunisa Inayat Khan (Noor Khan).

Noor Khan is also remembered at Sites Valençay and London Gordon Square Garden.

Monument Text:

Here in Dachau on the 12th of September 1944

four young Woman Officers of the British Forces attached to Special Operations Executive were brutally murdered and their bodies cremated. They died as gallantly as they had served the Resistance in France during the common struggle for freedom from tyranny

Mrs YOLANDE E M BEEKMAN (née Unternahrer)

Croix de Guerre avec Etoile de Vermeil

Women's Auxiliary Air Force seconded to Women's Transport Service (FANY

Miss MADELEINE DAMERMENT

Légion d'Honneur Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de Vermeil

Women's Transport Service(FANY)

Miss NOORUNISA INAYAT KHAN

George Cross Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Mentioned in Despatches Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de Vermeil

Women's Auxiliary Air Force seconded to Women's Transport Service (FANY)

Mrs ELIANE S PLEWMAN (née Browne-Bartroli)

Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de Vermeil

Women's Transport Service (FANY)

"But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them”

Commemorates:

People:

Noor Inayat Khan

Units:

F Section, Special Operations Executive

French Resistance

Resistance

SOE

Wars:

WWII

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