Edith in uniform but which organisation/service?

[garethgriffiths]

Hello again
I have been passed a photo of my great grandmother in uniform and given her birth year of 1873 I have to assume it is for WW1 as she looks too young for WW2 yet she lived till 1973!

I would like to ask to have the uniform coloured in etc. however the first query is to work out what uniform she is wearing?  Is it a nursing organisation and if so what colours are they?  What do the rank markings mean too please?  Does that look like a cross on her hat badge?
regards Gareth

[macintosh]

It looks like the hat badge of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (F.A.N.Y.) which formed the Women's Transport Service in 1938.
The epaulette bars indicate Lieutenent I think.

Google First Aid Nursing Yeomanry


James

[garethgriffiths]

Thanks James
Lieutenant seems pretty high up the ranks to me from the F.A.N.Y website.
I have emailed them with the image to get further details from their archive people.
regards Gareth

[garethgriffiths]

James
This is the response from the FANY archivist.

Your query has been passed to me by FANY HQ. I can confirm that this uniform is not that of the FANY. I’m afraid I can’t identify it, but I have a feeling it is civil, not military. Perhaps a driver of some kind.

If that is the case then can someone please offer me some recognition of this uniform?
regards Gareth

[em]

One from me.

Regards

em

[macintosh]

Well that is a surprise, The hat badge is almost identical given the angle of the hat, Sorry, perhaps if you post it on to the military board ww2 you may get some response.
All I did was google"Women's Services ww2 badge"

James

[garethgriffiths]

James
Thanks, it does look like a cross to me so I have asked them to reconsider.
Being born 1873 though by 1939 WW2 she would be 66 so it has to be WW1 as she is too young in this photo for 66 I think.
Gareth

[jim1]

I can't tell you anything about the uniform however I can tell you this isn't WW1.
The style & composition of this is 1930's on.

[garethgriffiths]

This becomes even more confusing then Jim.
Edith Ann Kemp had 2 daughters and this looks far more like Edith than one of them.
From surfing around, I was beginning to wonder if this was V.A.D. voluntary aided detachment (perhaps a nursing detachment)?  That was a large organisation in Sunderland in WW1 so as Edith lived in Middlesbrough then that area would have been quite as large there too.
regards Gareth