Emily Chaudhry

Colonel Emily Chaudhry was a UNIT officer and companion of the Sixth Doctor.

Early life
Emily Chaudhry had a posh accent which Eleanor Grainger believed she had been taught in order to hide the lower-class reality. (PROSE: Incongruous Details)

She joined the British Army and was drafted into UNIT, after which she researched the organisation's history (PROSE: Defining Patterns) and visited the White Rabbit for the first time when she was told about UNIT by John Benton. (PROSE: Incongrous Details)

Early career
On her first day at UNIT, Chaudhry was warned to avoid Code Blues and keep away from the Doctor in order to survive. (PROSE: Incongruous Details) She befriended Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood, who called her a "proper English rose" until she drank him under the table at a Christmas party. (AUDIO: The Longest Night) She greatly respected and trusted him, but denied being attracted to him. (AUDIO: The Wasting)

By the early 2000s, Chaudhry was a colonel and was UNIT's chief public relations officer. The job put her in constant contact with the likes of Francis Currie, whom she disliked. (AUDIO: The Coup, etc.)

In the 1990s, Chaudhry met and worked with at least two of the first five incarnations of the Doctor and was thus aware of regeneration. (PROSE: Defining Patterns) In 1999, she sent the Fifth Doctor to be assist Liz Shaw in studying a bust of Nero. (PROSE: Flashpoint) She later covered the incident up. (PROSE: Defining Patterns)

Travels in the TARDIS
In the 2000s, Chaudhry met Lieutenant Will Hoffman on his first day at UNIT and was initially unimpressed with him. After spotting the TARDIS, she and Hoffman met the Sixth Doctor and helped him defeat the Darkness using light, after which they joined him in the TARDIS on the condition that they go immediately back to UNIT HQ. (PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness) Chaudhry had secretly been desperate to see what was inside the ship.

The TARDIS received a distress call which Chaudhry begrudgingly agreed that they had to answer. They landed in 1940s London where Edward Grainger shot Chaudhry, but she survived thanks to alien technology that she was wearing and joined the Doctor and Hoffman in returning a Mim to the Mimsphere. Chaudhry found the planet squalid and thoroughly unremarkable and, upon returning to UNIT, they searched for Grainger's report and found a number of records from the '40s missing. To find them, the Doctor took her and Hoffman to 1957. (PROSE: Incongruous Details)

In 1957, Chaudhry met Ronnie Tillyard, who had been erasing records of the Doctor. The three travellers helped him, after which Chaudhry asked the Doctor if they had done the right thing. (PROSE: Defining Patterns)

The rise of ICIS
In 2004, Colonel Chaudhry became aware of Sergeant French's capture and torture of Francis Currie to cover up a conflict between ICIS (which was to replace UNIT) and the Silurians. She and Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart made UNIT's remit known, prompting Captain Andrea Winnington to shoot the Silurian ambassador, discrediting ICIS. (AUDIO: The Coup)

In 2005, Colonel Chaudhry delivered a press conference concerning the transport of nuclear warheads, a cover story for the moving of an alien spacecraft, and later discovered that both the craft and UNIT's commanding officer Colonel Ross Brimmicombe-Wood had disappeared. (AUDIO: Time Heals)

As commanding officer
In 2006 Emily was a witness to the Third Doctor's report of the events in the London Underground with Paul. (PROSE: Jigsaw)

Emily had Christmas dinner with the Eighth Doctor, Lethbridge-Stewart, Charley Pollard and several of her UNIT colleagues. (PROSE: Faithful Friends)

Appearance
Edward Grainger believed that Chaudhry had "wonderful eyes". (PROSE: Incongruous Details)

Personality
Chaudhry knew that she was worthy of the post of commanding officer of UNIT. (AUDIO: The Wasting) When she realised that she was heading towards a beach, she was eager to see the attractions. (AUDIO: Snake Head)


 * Position: Head of the British division of UNIT
 * Years: 2005 - ?
 * Preceded by: Robert Dalton (Acting)
 * Succeeded by: Alan Mace