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| Keywords: Lady Commandant of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.jpg en According to this photographs original caption the woman shown here watching the mechanic fixing an ambulance is a Commandant in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry FANY The metal nameplate at the top of the ambulances radiator shows the company name Napier At this time the Napier Engineering Company formed from D Napier Son was a leading British manufacturer of automobile and aircraft engines Established by Kitchener in 1907 the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry performed a wide range of front line duties including driving nursing and cooking The original purpose in setting up this organisation was to improve the care of wounded soldiers as they were moved from the front line to the military field hospitals As they had to serve in forward areas a number of women who worked for this organisation during the conflict lost their lives It is interesting to note just how many famous authors worked as ambulance drivers during World War I The roll of honour includes such famous writers as Ernest Hemingway Somerset Maugham E E Cummings John Masefield and Charles Nordhoff Hemingway certainly used his war experiences when writing the novel 'A Farewell to Arms ' Gertrude Stein and E M Forster also performed voluntary medical duties during the conflict 1918 https //flic kr/p/8amQA7 National Library of Scotland cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1918 in Scotland | ||||
