Captain Lisa Jade Head (30 November 1981 – 19 April 2011)
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officer. She was the first female
bomb disposal
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officer to be killed on operations. She died on 19 April 2011 at the age of 29, having sustained serious injuries on active service in
Afghanistan
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. At the time of her death, Head was the first female officer and the second British servicewoman to die in Afghanistan since 2001, after
Sarah Bryant, and the 364th member of the British armed forces in total.
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She served in Iraq and Afghanistan as an air transport liaison officer with the Royal Logistic Corps before being transferred to 321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Squadron, 11 Explosive Ordnance Department, Royal Logistic Corps, with whom she served in Northern Ireland. She was deployed to Afghanistan on 27 March 2011. She was a bomb disposal specialist and had achieved the "High Threat IED Operators" status indicating great expertise.
on 18 April 2011, 22 days after arriving in Afghanistan for the second time, while attempting to disable a cluster of
s, which defence sources said had been placed to catch out a bomb disposal expert. She disabled one device, but was hit when a second device in the chain went off. She lost nearly all her limbs in the explosion. She was evacuated by helicopter to
in Birmingham. She died there the following day.