Sharron Elliott

Sharron was a brave solider who was killed in Iraq.

Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, who grew up in Suffolk was one of four people killed in an attack on
a Multi-National Forces boat patrol on the Shatt Al-Arab waterway on Sunday, November 12 - she had
been serving in Iraq for just over a week.

Sharron was the second female British solider to die during the war in Iraq.

Staff Sgt Elliott joined the Army at 18 and spent her early career in the Royal Electrical and
Mechanical Engineers, proving herself when she qualified as an aircraft technician, the first female
to do so in the army.

She the transferred to the Intelligence Corps and served in Germany and Belize, as well as
completing a number of operational tours including service in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Iraq.

She was born and brought up in Ipswich and moved to the North East in 1998.

She had four siblings, two of whom are still serving in the Army.

Staff Sgt Elliott had recently been posted to Cyprus from the Defence College of Intelligence where
she had been a highly successful instructor.