Sergeant Chantelle Taylor (second right), Royal Army Medical Corps, with some of her comrades, 2008

Digital photograph taken on Chantelle Taylor's camera, Helmand Province Afghanistan, 2008.

Sergeant Chantelle Taylor completed two tours of Afghanistan. The first was in 2006 when she served at the Base Hospital in Camp Bastion, regularly working 12 hour shifts. Her second tour was in 2008. She was based at Lashkar Gah and then at a Forward Operating Base in Nad-e Ali.

Taylor was travelling with a convoy when they were attacked near Marjah. Taylor returned fire, becoming the first female British soldier to kill an enemy in combat.