Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill

Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill (10 June 1973 - 6 May 2006) was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force who died in Iraq, becoming the first British servicewoman to be killed in action in 22 years.^[1]

Born Sarah-Jayne Poole in Canterbury, Kent, she joined the RAF as an airwoman in May 1997. Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill was selected for officer training in October 2001. She graduated from the RAF College Cranwell in April 2002 and was commissioned into the Air Traffic Control Branch. She changed branch in 2003 and after completing Flight Operations Officer Training she was posted to RAF Northolt. In May 2005 she was posted to RAF Benson, Oxfordshire as the Flight Operations Officer on 28 (Army Cooperation) Squadron from where she was detached to Iraq.

Married to another serving member of the RAF, Lee Mulvihill, she was on her second deployment to Iraq. She died with four other members of a flight crew when their Lynx helicopter was shot down over Basra in southern Iraq.

She was 32 years old at the time of her death, and is survived by her parents, her brother and her husband.

References

1. ^ woman of courage - dailyrecord.co.uk

External links

• [1] Guardian Unlimited news story.
• [2] Ministry of Defence news story giving further biographical details

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Name	Mulvihill, Sarah-Jayne
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Date of birth	10 June 1973
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Date of death	6 May 2006
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