2. Able Seaman Kate Nesbitt
via dailymail.co.uk
Six months into her first tour of Afghanistan, Nesbitt’s convoy was ambushed. In the battle that followed, her colleagues were hit by shrapnel and bullets. A colleague, Lance Corporal John List was struck in the jaw and was in danger of choking to death on his own blood.
Nesbitt ran 70 metres across open ground to where he fell, and immediately opened up a second airway so he could breathe. She treated him for 45 minutes, before other soldiers could clear the area and fly List to hospital.
Written up for showing courage under fire, Nesbitt became the second woman, first in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross, in 2009.
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