All-women unit, affiliated to the TA, formed as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and active in both nursing and intelligence work during WW1 and WW2. The original role was to ride horseback (hence "yeomanry") to rescue wounded soldiers and provide first aid. In WW1 they drove motor ambulances and ran hospitals for the French and Belgian armies. At the start of WW2 they formed the Women's Transport Service and this became the cover for women who volunteered for espionage work for the Special Operations Executive. Our picture shows the Countess of Athlone in the WTS, though from the length of the skirts we think it must be when it was still known as FANY.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Women’s Transport Service (FANY)
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Women's Transport Service (FANY)
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Other Subjects
A. Greenwood
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
A. E. Grundy
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Private Robert William Baker
Robert William Baker was born on 24 September 1892 in Westminster, London, the younger son of Frederick George Baker (1861-1943) and Elizabeth Baker née Burton (1860-1916). His birth was registered...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Rifleman Benjamin John Furniss
Benjamin John Furniss was born on 1 February 1879 in Marylebone, Middlesex (now Greater London), one of the ten children of Benjamin John Furniss (1847-1913) and Ellen Martin Furniss née Grearson (...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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