MEMORIAL TRUST OF NOOR INAYAT KHAN

That this House congratulates the Memorial Trust of Noor Inayat Khan set up to honour and to recognise her extraordinary bravery; notes that Noor Inayat Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross as one of only three women in Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive and was also awarded the Croix de Guerre by France; recalls that under the code name Madeleine she was the first female radio operator in occupied France in 1943; further notes that despite being tortured she remained silent and her last word was Liberté; further notes that she was executed in Dachau at the age of 30; calls on hon. and right hon. Members to support the Memorial Trust in its request for a bust of her in Gordon Square; and requests that the University of London establishes the first memorial to a British Asian woman.