{"id":508,"date":"2014-09-01T00:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T23:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=508"},"modified":"2014-09-09T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T20:00:40","slug":"identifying-fanys-in-newspaper-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Identifying FANYs in Newspaper Cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post ties into the <a title=\"Evelyn Faulder\u2019s award of the Military Medal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=26\" target=\"_blank\">post about Evelyn Faulder&#8217;s Military Medal<\/a>. Recent comments by Juliet Webster have prompted me to revisit this story. There is a press cutting in the family (from the Daily Mirror of 23 July 1918):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_506\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"size-large wp-image-506\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-1024x871.jpg\" alt=\"Cutting; Photo of MM Award Winners\" width=\"768\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-1024x871.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners.jpg 1797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cutting; Photo of MM Award Winners<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But who is who?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Key for referencing the above:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_515\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"size-large wp-image-515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-identification-key2-1024x496.jpg\" alt=\"Cutting; Photo of MM Award Winners - identification key\" width=\"768\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-identification-key2-1024x496.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-identification-key2-768x372.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-identification-key2-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cutting-Photo-of-MM-Award-Winners-identification-key2.jpg 1797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cutting; Photo of MM Award Winners &#8211; identification key<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Identifying as FANY\/VAD, Seniority, Name. At the moment, I am including all suggestions, but <strong>emboldening<\/strong> a name when it looks as if there is a consensus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Military Medals in Blue <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(10 FANY, 4 possibly 5 VAD)<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Croix de Guerre in Purple<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (3 FANY) as suggested by Lynette Beardwood and Juliet Webster (NB Muriel Annie Thompson got both).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>FANY, Senior, Agreed by EN, LB, JW\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beryl (Betty) Hutchinson<\/strong>, &#8211; EN ref: FANY Archives (Probable)<\/li>\n<li>Beryl (Betty) Hutchinson, &#8211; LB\/JW : no medal that night, 2 i\/c and Workshop Officer. Later awarded MBE<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Muriel Annie Thompson, &#8211; JW ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocotilloroad.com\/geneal\/images\/ThompsonMA1875.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a> on <a title=\"Gosnell family website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ocotilloroad.com\/geneal\/thompson3.html#MURI1875\" target=\"_blank\">Thompson Family pages<\/a> on Gosnell family website<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FA<span style=\"color: #800080;\">NY<\/span><\/span>, Senior, Agreed by EN, LB, JW, DF\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"headword\">Muriel Annie <span class=\"headword\">Thompson<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, &#8211; EN ref: FANY Archives (Probable)<\/li>\n<li>Muriel Thompson, &#8211; LB\/JW: MM &amp; CdeG on same night<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"headword\">Muriel Annie <span class=\"headword\">Thompson,<\/span> &#8211; DF ref: very similar to <a title=\"DNB link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/view\/article\/68164\" target=\"_blank\">photo in DNB<\/a> The entry however says she &#8220;was a tall, dark-haired woman&#8221; &#8211; is she standing on the steps down into the dugout? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocotilloroad.com\/geneal\/images\/ThompsonMA1875.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a> also on <a title=\"Gosnell family website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ocotilloroad.com\/geneal\/thompson3.html#MURI1875\" target=\"_blank\">Thompson Family pages<\/a> on Gosnell family website)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibly (either\/or)\n<ul>\n<li>Elsie Courtis, &#8211; LB\/JW (see also 15)<\/li>\n<li>Evelyn Gordon-Brown, &#8211; LB\/JW (see also 8 &amp; 15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibly,\n<ul>\n<li>Mary Devas Marshall, &#8211; EN ref: FANY Archives (Possible)<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Callender, &#8211; LB\/JW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">VAD<\/span>, Possibly,\n<ul>\n<li>Margaret Davidson, &#8211; LB\/JW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">VAD<\/span>, Agreed by EN, LB, JW\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stella Primrose Dickson<\/strong>, &#8211; EN ref: FANY Archives (Probable)<\/li>\n<li>Stella Dickson, &#8211; LB\/LW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>VAD, <strong>Unknown<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibly,\n<ul>\n<li>Mary (Dicky) Richardson, later Runciman, &#8211; EN ref: FANY Archives (Probable)<\/li>\n<li>Evelyn Gordon-Brown, &#8211; LB\/JW (see also 3 &amp; 15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">VAD<\/span>, Agreed by JW, LB\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Josephine Pennell<\/strong> (later Tennent) &#8211; JW ref: Josephine Tennent&#8217;s <em>Red Herrings<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Josephine Tennant &#8211; LB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibly,\n<ul>\n<li>Hilda Dickenson, &#8211; LB\/JW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibly\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Molly O\u2019Connell-Bianconi &#8211; JW ref: photo on Lives of the First World War (IWM) <a title=\"Lives of the First World War\" href=\"https:\/\/livesofthefirstworldwar.org\/lifestory\/4942138\" target=\"_blank\">Driver Mary O&#8217;Connell Bianconi<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Winnie Mordaunt (CdeG but not MM), LB\/JW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibly\n<ul>\n<li>Aileen Faulkner, LB\/JW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibly\n<ul>\n<li>Norma Lowson (CdeG but not MM), LB\/JW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>, Agreed by EN, LB, JW,\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Evelyn Faulder<\/strong>, later Nason, &#8211; EN ref: FANY Archives (Possible)<\/li>\n<li>Evelyn Faulder, LB\/JW (see also 16 &amp; 17)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibly (either\/or)\n<ul>\n<li>Evelyn Gordon-Brown, LB\/JW (see also 3 &amp; 8)<\/li>\n<li>Elsie Courtis, LB\/JW (see also 3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>, Possibility\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Evelyn Faulder, later Nason &#8211; DF ref: suggested from a photograph at IWM (see also 14 &amp; 17)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Sadie Bonnell, later Sara Talbot &#8211; JW ref: photo on <a title=\"Great War London\" href=\"https:\/\/greatwarlondon.wordpress.com\/\" rel=\"home\">Great War London<\/a>: <a title=\"Great War London blog\" href=\"https:\/\/greatwarlondon.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/24\/sadie-bonnell-bravery-in-the-field\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sadie Bonnell: bravery in the field<\/a> (see 17)<\/li>\n<li>Mary (Mollie) Bianconi-O\u2019Connell, LB\/JW (see also 11)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FANY<\/span>,Possibly\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Evelyn Faulder, later Nason &#8211; DF ref: suggested from a photograph at IWM\u00a0(see also 14 &amp; 16)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Muriel Annie Thompson, &#8211; &gt; JW ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocotilloroad.com\/geneal\/images\/ThompsonMA1875.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a> on <a title=\"Gosnell family website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ocotilloroad.com\/geneal\/thompson3.html#MURI1875\" target=\"_blank\">Thompson Family pages<\/a> on Gosnell family website<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Sarah (Sadie) Bonnell, LB\/JW (see 16)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">VAD<\/span>, Agreed LB, JW\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Win Elwes<\/strong> &#8211; JW ref: Josephine Tennent&#8217;s <em>Red Herrings<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Winnie Elwes &#8211; LB\/JW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Identifiers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DF David Faulder (Great Nephew of Evelyn Faulder)<\/li>\n<li>JW Juliet Webster (Great Niece of Win Elwes)<\/li>\n<li>LB Lynette Beardwood (working with Juliet)<\/li>\n<li>EN Eleanor Nicholson (Working in FANY Archives &#8211; see comment below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Possibles &#8211; incomplete list of FANYs (10+2\/13), overcomplete list of VADs!(7\/5). This list of possibles is compiled by looking for FANY and VAD members whose Gazette citations mention an air raid and ambulances\/cars. JW suggests that 2 in the picture may have been there due to seniority rather than being awarded the MM &#8211; they might be Betty Hutchinson (2 0\/c) and\u00a0 Sgt. Norma Lowson.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FANY members from <a title=\"London Gazette Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.london-gazette.co.uk\/issues\/30784\/supplements\/8029\" target=\"_blank\">8 July 1918<\/a> Announcement (which refers to the ammunition dump fire)\n<ul>\n<li>Miss Sarah Bonnell (Later <a title=\"DNB link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/view\/article\/53365\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Talbot<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Miss Evelyn Gordon-Brown<\/li>\n<li>Miss Aileen Maude Faulkner<\/li>\n<li>Miss Evelyn Faulder (Later Eve Nason) (Number 14 in photograph)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>FANY members from <a title=\"London Gazette link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30820\/supplement\/9000\" target=\"_blank\">30 July 1918 a<\/a> Announcement (which refers to operating during an air raid)\n<ul>\n<li>Miss Muriel Thompson (Commandant) (Number 2 in photograph)<\/li>\n<li>Miss Elsie Agnes Courtis<\/li>\n<li>Miss Mary Richardson<\/li>\n<li>Miss Mollie O\u2019Connell-Bianconi<\/li>\n<li>Miss Hilda May Dickinson<\/li>\n<li>Miss Elizabeth Beveridge Callander<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>VAD members from the <a title=\"London Gazette link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.london-gazette.co.uk\/issues\/30784\/supplements\/8029\" target=\"_blank\">8 July 1918<\/a> Announcement\n<ul>\n<li>Miss Nellie Dewhurst,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>VAD members from the <a title=\"London Gazette link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30820\/supplement\/9000\" target=\"_blank\">30 July 1918<\/a> Announcements (three separate announcements on same page)\n<ul>\n<li>Miss Winifred Millicent Elwes, (<a title=\"London Gazette link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30820\/supplement\/9000\" target=\"_blank\">30 July 1918 a<\/a>) originally recorded as FANY (Number 18 in photograph)<\/li>\n<li>Miss Katharine Fabling (<a title=\"London Gazette Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30820\/supplement\/9000\" target=\"_blank\">30 July 1918 b<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Miss Stella Dickson (<a title=\"London Gazette Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30820\/supplement\/9000\" target=\"_blank\">30 July 1918 b<\/a>) (Number 6 in photograph)<\/li>\n<li>Miss Josephine Pennell (<a title=\"London Gazette Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30820\/supplement\/9000\" target=\"_blank\">30 July 1918 b<\/a>) (Later Josephine Tennent) (Number 9 in photograph)<\/li>\n<li>Miss Margaret Davidson (<a title=\"London Gazette Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30820\/supplement\/9000\" target=\"_blank\">30 July 1918 b<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Miss Winifred Eleanor Sarah Mount Batten, B.R.C.S (Commandant) (<a title=\"London Gazette Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30820\/supplement\/9000\" target=\"_blank\">30 July 1918 c<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>FANY member from <a title=\"London Gazette Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/30959\/supplement\/12304\" target=\"_blank\">19 October 1918<\/a> Announcement\n<ul>\n<li>Miss Mary Stubbs <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">*<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>FANY members from <a title=\"London Gazette link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/31028\/supplement\/13889\" target=\"_blank\">25 November 1918<\/a> Announcements (each individually announced)\n<ul>\n<li>Miss Evelyn M Cridlan<\/li>\n<li>Miss Gwendolyn Gerrish Peyton-Jones <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Miss Mary Devas Marshall <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Miss Rachel Gertrude Moseley\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Miss Ellen Russell (Dolly) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Miss Christina Margaret Calder Urquhart (later Christina Margaret Calder Stump)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">*<\/span> This citation refers to driving an ambulance evacuating a hospital during an air raid.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span> These citations make specific reference to working with the French Army, so probably relate to a different incident and they probably do not feature in the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Misses Stubbs,\u00a0 Cridlan and Urquhart are gazetted many months after the presentation referred to in the Mirror of 23 July 1918, there may be an explanation (the 30 July Announcements are also &#8220;after the event&#8221;) and they may have been involved in the St Omer incident &#8211; all their citations refer to a bombing raid and conveying the wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post ties into the post about Evelyn Faulder&#8217;s Military Medal. Recent comments by Juliet Webster have prompted me to revisit this story. There is a press cutting in the family (from the Daily Mirror of 23 July 1918): But who is who?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,46,45,136,119],"tags":[48,202,47],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1914-18-ww1","category-faulder","category-france","category-honours","category-photographs","category-update-as-information-arises","tag-fany","tag-faulder","tag-military-medal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}