Episode 3 - Anna Whitehead

In this 3rd episode, we meet the first of our (surviving) Commanding Officers, Anna Whitehead OBE, who became the CO in 1990. The daughter of an Army Officer, Col Leonard Dismore, who had served with the SOE in WW2, and the wife of a naval officer, David Whitehead, Anna served as CO until 1997. She hit the ground running: within her first year the Corps deployed to provide support during the 1991 Cannon Street rail crash.One of Anna’s enduring legacies is our Long Service Medal, introduced by her and awarded to FANYs once they had given 10 years of loyal service.For this podcast we spent a wonderful afternoon in her house in Bishops Waltham, pouring over FANY memorabilia and laughing about how so much has changed, but also how much has stayed the same.Follow us on: Linked in, Instagram or X