First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

They went into the Wrens, the women of the Royal Navy.

They became FANYs, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.

The ATF, like Queen Elizabeth went into, where she learned to drive and repair Jeeps.

One of the things that I was very interested in was that a lot of these young women then got drawn into the intelligence services, and it's hard to know how many because of the Secrets Act.

And outstanding, even amongst so much that is splendid, are certain bands of girls behind the lines who, not for a month or two, but year in, year out, during nights and days when they have known no rest, have they, also, had their fingers on the pulse of war.

End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 of The Sword of Deborah by F. Tennyson Jesse This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Marianne Chapter 3 Backgrounds At HQBRCS, the D of T told me that the first thing for me to see were the FANYs and the GSVADs.

That is the sort of sentence that was shot at me on my first day.

I have told you what HQBRCS means.

Yet the importance of the distinction, I soon learned, was great.

Four sets of initials representing my chief objectives in France.

The FANYs, the VADs, the GSVADs, and the WAACs.

Of these the former are known as the Fannies, and the last named as the WACs, owing to the tendency of the eye to make out of any possible combination of letters a word that appeals to the ear.