Two members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry grooming their horses, 1914-1918 (c)

Photograph, 1914-1918 (c).

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) was formed in 1907 and acted as a first-aid link between front-line fighting units and field hospitals. It was the first British women's voluntary organisation to deploy during World War One (1914-1918). As well as running hospitals, personnel drove ambulances and set up soup kitchens and canteens to serve the troops serving in France and Belgium.

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, as a Yeomanry corps, was primarily a mounted unit. Personnel were therefore trained in aspects of horse care such as feeding, grooming, and exercising and turning out of the horses.

From an album of photographs, one of three compiled by Lilian Franklin OBE, FANY, 1914-1918.