Not many know of her, but she is getting a statue in London's Gordon Square Gardens. Noor Inayat Khan was born in 1914 to an Indian father (a descendant of Indian royalty) and American mother and raised in Britain and France. Despite her fervent belief in non-violence, she became a spy during World War II and was the first female wireless operator to be dropped behind enemy lines, in France. She died before a Nazi firing squad in the Dachau concentration camp in 1944: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20240693
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