Hi All,

I've seen clips and photos images on TV documentaries that showed Queen Elizabeth in service ... a young and beautiful looking woman.

I've just been browsing the FANY site, and it's great, giving lots of information about these women, who, FANY women STILL SERVE TODAY! So they are still happening and have had reunions since way back when. I don't know when they started having reunions, but the site mentions that FANY was brought into existance in 1907 ... if you visit the site be sure to check out the HISTORY section, including the "BOOKS" part of the history section, as it lists a number of books, some sound amazing ... many of these women had horrible deaths while serving ... in concentration camps, prisoners of war, tortured - which I assume means raped and tortured sexually because of their femaleness ... horrible ... these women in the front lines were amazing in that they were women, period, for those days and gender roles, and yet they put themselves in harms ways for their countries and the rest of us, knowing many of the risks ... they did it anyways and accomplished amazing things according to bits I've read about some of these womens heroism actions. Many received high medals, some received posthumously ... a special breed of woman they are/were ... many of these women fell in the line of duty ...

WW1 History:

http://www.fany.org.uk/history/ww1/ww1_page_03.html

Books:

http://www.fany.org.uk/history/books.html

Karmen