The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War

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First Aid Nursing Yeomanry First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) was created in 1907 by Captain Edward Baker as a first aid link between front-line fighting units and the field hospitals. Baker intended that women who joined FANY would not only be first aid specialists, but would have skills that would allow them to get to casualties on the battlefield itself and the first members of FANY were trained in cavalry work, signalling and camping out. But in the male dominated world of that era, it was not felt suitable for women to be on the front line. Dispite this a number of women went to Belgium and France and ran hospitals close to the front lines. As well as treating the wounded, FANY’s drove ambulances and set up soup kitchens and canteens, took food and spare clothes up to the front line and ran a mobile bating service and a cinema. A lot of their work put them in danger. During the Great War FANY’s were awarded seventeen Military Medals, twenty-seven Croix de Guerre and one Legion d’Honneur. List of those who served with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during The Great War

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