FANY

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  • The first Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) was the first women's voluntary organisation to send volunteers to the Western Front.
  • One unit ran the Calais ambulance unit, with 22 drivers and 12 ambulances.   
  • FANY paved the way for VAD (Volunteer Aid Detachment) nurses to help medical services.
  • The first 6 women went in 1914 and over 500 women volunteered to provide frontline medical support.
  • FANY helped by driving ambulances, driving supplies to the frontline and setting up a mobile bath units that could bathe up to 40 men an hour!