XVIII. ROEHAMPTON: "BOB" THE GREY, AND THE ARMISTICE 267

XIX. AFTER TWO YEARS 283




FANNY GOES TO WAR




CHAPTER I

IN CAMP BEFORE THE WAR


The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry was founded in 1910 and now numbers
roughly about four hundred voluntary members.

It was originally intended to supplement the R.A.M.C. in field work,
stretcher bearing, ambulance driving, etc.--its duties being more or
less embodied in the title.

An essential point was that each member should be able to ride bareback
or otherwise, as much difficulty had been found in transporting nurses
from one place to another on the veldt in the South African War. Men had
often died through lack of attention, as the country was too rough to
permit of anything but a saddle horse to pass.