RAMC/FANY

Cards (13)

  • What was the FANY?
    Women who provided services such as mobile bath units and morale for soldiers
  • when was the RAMC formed?
    1898
  • what does the RAMC stand for?
    royal army medical corps
  • what did the RAMC include?
    • ambulance drivers
    • doctors
    • stretcher bearers
  • what was the RAMC responsible for?
    keeping men healthy through good sanitation
  • what does the FANY stand for?
    First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
  • when was the FANY founded?
    1907
  • what did the FANY do?
    • help morale
    • provide food and clothes
    • mobile bath unit
    • engaging in emergency first aid
  • the FANY was the first woman organisation to send volunteers to the front
  • how were men first moved away from the frontline?
    horse drawn ambulance wagons
  • what did the RAMC run?
    field ambulances
  • who developed the chain of evacuation?
    RAMC
  • what were RAMC responsible for?
    medical care including learning about new wounds and trying new surgery in CCS and base hospitals