The Fany in War and Peace

by Popham, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780850529340
• ISBN10: 0850529344
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Leo Cooper

Summary

The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the Great War. However, it is for their service during the Second World War that they are best known. They worked in a wide variety of roles both at home and overseas, both overt and covert. Of the latter there were 39 girls who worked with SOE behind the lines with Resistance movements. Of these 13 were captured and killed, often after torture, including Odette Churchill and Violette Szabo. Many others worked as coders and decoders, running safe-houses and training agents and in a variety of supporting roles.

Table of Contents

Foreword HRH The Princess Royal	xiii
The Sudanese Vision of the Mysterious Mr Baker (1907)	1	(7)
O Dreams! O Destinations! (1910--14): The Dreams	8	(7)
O Dreams! O Destination! (1914--15): The Destinations	15	(8)
Convalescents, Convoys and Canteens (1915--16)	23	(11)
The Thunder of the Guns (1917--18)	34	(13)
Coping with Peace (1919--39)	47	(9)
The Shotgun Wedding (1932--39)	56	(10)
Fanys in Chains (1939--45)	66	(7)
The Free Fanys (1939--46)	73	(14)
The Secret Fanys (1940--45) The Back Room Girls	87	(11)
The Secret Fanys (1940--45): In the Field	98	(9)
Fanys Far and Wide (1943--46)	107	(9)
The End of Euphoria (1946--65)	116	(9)
Small, Compact, Efficient (1965--84)	125	(14)
Continuity Through Change (1984--2003)	139	(18)
Appendix 1: List of Major Events since 1983	157	(3)
Appendix 2: Honours and Awards	160	(1)
Appendix 3: Senior Officers of the Corps	161	(1)
Appendix 4: Commanding Officers	162	(1)
Bibliography	163	(2)
Index	165