She won the George Cross . The George Cross was posthumously conferred on , Assistant Section Officer , Noor Inayat Khan of the Women's Royal Air Force . Miss Inayat Khan was the first radio operator to be infiltrated into enemy-occupied France. She was captured by the Gestapo and shot at Dachau in September 1944 at the age of 30. Although constantly sought by the Germans , who knew her by her code name " Madeleine " she would not leave her post. Miss Inayat Khan was the daughter of the late PM Inayat Khan , Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Paris, and she was educated in France where she trained as a nurse .