Medical gauze from the medical kit of Sergeant Chantelle Taylor, Royal Army Medical Corps, 2008

QuikClot Combat Gauze made by Z-Medica, 2008 (c).

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 Laskar Gah and then at a Forward Operating Base in Marjah.

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.