Sarah Bushbye MC

9th November 2010. Bullets whizzing through the air around her, Army medic Sarah Bushbye sprang into action to treat four soldiers severely hurt in a suicide bomb attack. She ignored the grave risk of more bombs and heavy gunfire to dash more than 100 yards across open ground to reach the men. Tragically, the two British and two Afghan servicemen wounded when a Taliban bomber detonated his device at the vehicle checkpoint in Sangin, Helmand province, lost their fights for life despite her desperate efforts. But today the 26-year-old’s selfless bravery was recognised when she became only the third woman to be awarded the Military Cross.