Katrina Hodge

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Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge (born 1987) is a serving member of the British Army from Tunbridge Wells, Kent in south-east England. She rose to fame after it was reported in the British papers in 2005 that she had won a bravery award whilst serving with the Royal Anglian Regiment in Iraq for wrestling two rifles from a prisoner and then flooring him with her bare hands - thus saving lives of her fellow comrades.

Recently she has made the headlines again for being the first member of the British Armed Forces to enter a beauty pageant. The interest in Hodge's job and her mission to show that beauty queens can have brains as well as looks hit every national newspaper in 2008 and she is also well known as "Combat Barbie"

Hodge told The Sun: "You hear girls in beauty pageants talking about wanting world peace, but I'm out there trying to achieve peace for real and I want more girls to join up."

The national finals for the 2008 Miss England title were held on July 18, 2008. Katrina was placed 5th and won Miss Eco girl - an outstanding effort for the only contestant not to be considered as a "model".

She was the runner up in the 2009 Miss England competition, ^[1][2] but became Miss England when the pageant winner Rachel Christie stepped down.^[3]

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