Robin Bourne-Taylor - Military Career

Military Career

Bourne-Taylor was commissioned into the Life Guards, after the 44 week commissioning course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, as a subaltern (second lieutenant) on 12 August 2006 with seniority from 9 February 2003. He was promoted on the same day to subaltern (lieutenant) with seniority from 9 February 2005. He was promoted to captain on 12 February 2009.

His girlfriend Second Lieutenant Jo Dyer was killed by an improvised explosive device in Basra on Thursday, 5 April 2007. His first operational posting was to Afghanistan on 1 October 2009. He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, the second-highest British gallantry medal, in the Operational Honours And Awards List of 24 September 2010, "for gallant and distinguished services in Afghanistan during the period 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2010". He left the army in the summer of 2010 and was transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 1 January 2011 thereby officially ending his army career. In 2011, he took up a position with BBA-reman, a reconditioned car component manufacturer.