Book contents
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Aristocratic amazons in arms: The founding of the FANY 1907–14
- 2 The great adventures begin: Grace Ashley-Smith in Belgium Autumn 1914
- 3 Band of Hope: FANY with the Belgians at Lamarck Hospital 1914–15
- 4 Not a woman, but a FANY: Working for the British in Calais 1916
- 5 Progression is our watchword: The Belgian convoy and Port à Binson Priory Hospital 1917
- 6 Petticoat warriors: The French units and the convoy at St Omer 1917–18
- 7
Esprit de corps : FANY service after the Armistice 1918–19 - Postscript
- Index
- Index of FANY members
Book contents
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Aristocratic amazons in arms: The founding of the FANY 1907–14
- 2 The great adventures begin: Grace Ashley-Smith in Belgium Autumn 1914
- 3 Band of Hope: FANY with the Belgians at Lamarck Hospital 1914–15
- 4 Not a woman, but a FANY: Working for the British in Calais 1916
- 5 Progression is our watchword: The Belgian convoy and Port à Binson Priory Hospital 1917
- 6 Petticoat warriors: The French units and the convoy at St Omer 1917–18
- 7 Esprit de corps: FANY service after the Armistice 1918–19
- Postscript
- Index
- Index of FANY members
Summary
This chapter traces the lives of some of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) after the war and summarizes the organizational development of the FANY through the Second World War. By the 1970s many of the First World War FANY had died. When Baxter-Ellis resigned after the Second World War she lived with her partner 'Tony' Kingston Walker. Grace McDougall inquired directly with the FANY-Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) about renewing her service commitment and was told she was over age. Perhaps motivated by Enid Bagnold's The Happy Foreigner, the novel begins with the demobilization of a beautiful 'khaki-clad English girl' who is identified as a FANY and named Marion O'Hea. The FANY were to be involved in all motor driving companies for the Army and the Women's Legion was to work with the Royal Air Force.
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- War girlsThe First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War, pp. 249 - 260Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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