Tunic, No 2 dress, worn by Sergeant Chantelle Taylor, Royal Army Medical Corps, 2008 (c)

Taylor joined the Army as a Combat Medical Technician in 1998. She served in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2008. Taylor was attached to 16 Air Assault Brigade on her first tour of Afghanistan in 2006. On her 2008 tour Taylor made history as the first female British soldier to kill an enemy in combat, when returning fire following an ambush.

Taylor left the Army in 2010 and returned to Afghanistan with the US State Department to develop a trauma assistance programme to support victims of the conflict.