First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Ww1

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Ww1. When first founded the women enrolled wore scarlet tunics with white braid facings. There are432 items tagged First Aid Nursing Yeomanry available in our Library.

Bakers idea was 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. The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry was formed in 1907 so it could provide a link between field hospitals and the front lines. These women worked in highly dangerous conditions and won 17 Military Medals 1 Legion dHonneur and 27 Croix de Guerre.

At the end of the war four years later it numbered over 10000 nurses.

Our First Aid Nursing Yeomanry FANY Displays Who were the original FANY Until relatively recently history books have neglected this courageous determined and capable group of women who volunteered for service on the Western Front during the First World War. An interesting article entitled A Womens Nursing Yeomanry Corps at Work was written by Lynette Beardwood who has been instrumental in helping Joyce of Sussex Yeomanry have made by The Cavalry Workshop an accurate copy of one of the uniforms that was worn by Lilian Franklin who was one of the founder members of FANY now. Perhaps Baker himself finally found their spiritedness too. Our First Aid Nursing Yeomanry FANY Displays Who were the original FANY Until relatively recently history books have neglected this courageous determined and capable group of women who volunteered for service on the Western Front during the First World War.