Education
Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Flight Lieutenant Operations Officer
Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Born Sarah-Jayne Poole in Canterbury, Kent, she joined the Royal Air Force as an airwoman in May 1997. Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill was selected for officer training in October 2001. She graduated from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in April 2002 and was commissioned into the Air Traffic Control Branch.
She changed branch in 2003 and after completing Flight Operations Officer Training she was posted to Royal Air Force Northolt.
In May 2005 she was posted to Royal Air Force Benson, Oxfordshire as the Flight Operations Officer on 28 (Army Cooperation) Squadron from where she was detached to Iraq.
Married to another serving member of the Royal Air Force, Lee Mulvihill, she was on her second deployment to Iraq. She died with four other members of a flight crew when their Lynx helicopter was shot down over Basra in southern Iraq.