An asian princess die's with Britain in her heart

[Casanova]

This thread is about a little unknown Asian-American spy whom died for us via the gestapo's hand, acting as a spy to save the french from german hands--keeping them in communication with the Allies.

Noor Inayat Khan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan) was a very special women, born to an indian father (whom was the great grandson of of Tipu Sultan, the famous 18th century ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore) and an american mother, both met during her father's travels.

She lived in Russia, france and england. When the war broke out, although she didn't have any alliance to england at the time she and her brother returned to England, she trained as an SOE to work on the front line utilising her skills in fluent french and radio skills.

There's currently a campaign to raise £100,000 for a bronze statue of Noor Khan to honour in Britain like she deserves, she's mostly unknown but is celebrated in France for her efforts in maintaining communication between France and allies, for working against the Germans/gustapo.

Pretty damn admirable women. All I can say is ****, she deserves more than a statue!
Read more on Noor Khan HERE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan).

[-:Undertaker:-]

There was a story in the Mail not long ago about this, very sad but one of those gem tales you hear of. Yes she does deserve a statue, and wouldn't be be nice if we could honour British/imperial heros such as herself rather than building grand ugly and expensive statues/sculptures whcih represent nothing?

[Casanova]

yeah I see your point but where are we supposed to honour them otherwise, a statue is limited but I can't genuinely think of anything else?

[-:Undertaker:-]

yeah I see your point but where are we supposed to honour them otherwise, a statue is limited but I can't genuinely think of anything else?

Just things like statues really, for example if the council is having a square revamped - instead of commissioning an ugly expensive piece of artwork that means nothing to anybody, put a statue up to a national or local hero.

[Casanova]

i couldn't agree more, our council installed a solid granite water installation for like, a year. it was turned on like four times a year, mostly the tramps used to let their kids run in and about it... it was awful. Must of cost at least 20k, it got removed? What a waste of money. Saying that, the full of the square was solid granite :P? good on you renfrewshire council!

On topic, I think she could be commended better but without a clear idea there's no point me adding to it.

[vain]

R.I.P!

[Casanova]

thanks for your input.

[GommeInc]

There are a number of different ways to honour her - naming a section of a building (or a whole building) with a gold plaque and an area talking about what she did and what the effort accomplished or creating a statue are the ones I can think of which would be of use to her, although statues tend to mean very little and take up a lot of space for something that doesn't tell you much.

She seems like an interesting person, and she helped in the war effort and was heavily involved. She may not of won the war, but she helped a lot for the French and we helped train her for use with the allies.