The London Gazette of 15th. April 1949, gives the following details: Assistant Section Officer Nora Inayat-Khan was the first women operator to be sent into enemy-occupied France, on 16th June 1943. During the weeks immediately following her arrival, the Gestapo made mass arrests among the Paris Resistance Groups, to which she was detailed. She refused to abandon what had become the most important and dangerous post in France and did excellent work which earned her a posthumous Mention in Despatches. After three and a half months she was betrayed to the Gestapo. They asked her to co-operate in the use of her codes which they discovered, but she refused and gave them no information of any kind. She twice attempted to escape and when she refused to promise not to make any further attempts, she was sent to Germany "for safe custody" - first to Karlsruhe, then to Pfersheim, where again she refused to give any information as to her work or colleagues. On the 12th. September 1944 she was taken with three others to Dachau concentration camp, where on arrival she was taken to the crematorium and shot. Assistant Section Officer Inayat-Khan displayed the most conspicuous courage, both moral and physical, over a period of more than 12 months.