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Beryl Hutchinson
In May 1915 she was involved in looking after the casualties during the first gas attack. The suffering were trying to gain relief by having their faces washed with scraps of cotton wool soaked in vinegar. It was the FANYs idea to use sanitary towels as a more substantial replacement. The actual brand was "Mr Southall's conveniences for ladies" which they cut in half before soaking the pads in Rimmell's Toilet Vinegar. She rose to be second in command of the FANY–VAD St Omer convoy helping to evacuate the wounded under fire. In 1919 she was awarded an
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(22 August 1892 – 6 November 1981) was a British volunteer ambulance driver and officer of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. After the war she became Life President of the Society for Study of Physiological Patterns ( Palmistry).
Life
Hutchinson was born inSpotland
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near Rochdale to Florence Mark and Robert Arthur Lord Hutchinson. Her father was a woollen manufacturer. She was driving at the age of 13 and she attended Highfield Ladies’ School in Hendon
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In 1914 she joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry known as the FANYs. She went to France on the first day of 1915. The FANYs were all volunteers who paid to be in the organisation. Hutchinson said she went to France because she supplied a mobile kitchen although it was compared to a hen shed on a Ford chassis.
In May 1915 she was involved in looking after the casualties during the first gas attack. The suffering were trying to gain relief by having their faces washed with scraps of cotton wool soaked in vinegar. It was the FANYs idea to use sanitary towels as a more substantial replacement. The actual brand was "Mr Southall's conveniences for ladies" which they cut in half before soaking the pads in Rimmell's Toilet Vinegar. She rose to be second in command of the FANY–VAD St Omer convoy helping to evacuate the wounded under fire. In 1919 she was awarded an MBE Mbe may refer to:
* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
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for her war service.
During the Second World War she returned to the FANY and was put in command of the 8th (London) motor transport company. She and her unit were moved to the ATS. In 1945 she and Noel Jaquin founded an organisation for those interested in palmistry, astrology and similar studies. In 1971 she became Life President of the Society for Study of Physiological Patterns. She was quoted as an expert in books on the subject.
Hutchinson died in Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
on 30 July 1981.
References
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