A SOLDIER who became the first female to lose a limb fighting in Afghanistan completed a charity skydive yesterday to raise funds for ABF The Soldiers’ Charity.
Major Kate Philp, originally from Knightwick, near Worcester, joined the Tigers Parachute Display Team from the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment and 20 other women to take a jump from 13,000 feet at Netheravon Airfield in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Major Philp, of 3rd (UK) Division in Bulford, was injured when the tank she was commanding ran over a bomb in 2008.
We previously reported in your Worcester News that Major Philp was named an ambassador of ABF The Soldiers’ Charity when it relaunched in 2010. It has been the national charity of the British Army since 1944.
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