Monday 30 May 2022

K is for... Khan, Noor Inayat


The Doctor encountered Khan when she and Victorian scientist Ada Lovelace were transported through time by the Kaasavin to Nazi occupied Paris in 1943. She helped to hide them from the Germans, who were being commanded by the disguised Master. Khan was a British agent, a member of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) who acted as spies and saboteurs behind enemy lines. The Doctor used her radio equipment to contact the Master, and then had Khan inform London that the Master was a British spy - knowing that the Nazis would be monitoring the signal.
She made a brief visit to England in 2020 after the Doctor stole the Master's TARDIS, but had her memories erased after the Doctor took her back to 1943.

Played by: Aurora Marion. Appearances: Spyfall Part II (2020).
  • Khan was the first female radio operator to be sent into France to assist the Resistance. She was betrayed and captured, and ended her life in Dachau concentration camp on 13th September 1944, aged 40. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross.

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