First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, British

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First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, British
Years active: September 1907 –
Country: United Kingdom
Service: First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Branch: none
Type: Medical
Specific type: unknown
Full size: none
Sources for overview:
Created: September 1907. 
Sources for created:
Alternate names: FANY
Sources for alternate names:
Disbanded:
Sources for disbanded:
For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.


Personal narratives

Grace McDougall

Template:RefLives served on the Wester Front with the FANY and published a memoir of her experiences:

  • Grace McDougall, A Nurse at the War, Nursing Adventures in Belgium and France (New York, Robert M. McBride and Co., 1917).
    • American edition available at the Internet Archive
    • also published in the UK in 1917 as Nursing adventures: A F.A.N.Y. in France.

Related media

Official Sources

Unit war diaries

None. Administrative organisations did not keep war diaries because they had no operational role.

See descendant unit pages for their war diaries.


Unit histories


Other official documents

Other sources

  • War Girls, Janet Lee, Manchester University Press, 2005
  • The FANY in Peace and War, Hugh Popham, Pen & Sword, 1984 (reprinted 2003)
  • F.A.N.Y. Invicta, Irene Ward Hutchinson, 1955
  • Fanny Goes to War, Pat Beauchamp, John Murray, 1919 (reprinted The Echo Library 2000; Digory Press 2005; Createspace 2011)
  • Red Herrings, R J Tennent, Midas Books, 1980

References