The British Army's 16 Air Assault Brigade sent ... a medic in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), became the first female paratrooper to jump into Normandy as she joined the commemorative jump.

But she went on to complete hundreds of parachute jumps all over the world, and set the Guinness World Record for the oldest female solo parachute jump. She also founded the Touch Trust charity ...

A British paratrooper whose grandfather fought for ... Lance Corporal Addy Carter, the first female soldier to qualify as a paratrooper, also took part. Ms Carter said: “Seeing people here ...