Got it.
Lady on other forum recognised it straight away..
Your nan was a FANY ( PRVC ) Member of the Princess Royal Volunteer Corp., from which many S.O.E. members were recruited
This site makes really good reading:
https://www.fany.org.uk/history
Well done!!!
I don't think she was sent outside UK.
She lived in Southampton for a long time and I wonder if she worked in the military hospital there, Netly.
She worked in Glasgow and Sidcup.
I have a staff photograph of Sidcup, it's about a metre long. St Mary's Frognal Sidcup.
She came back to Dublin around 1955.
I never asked the questions I should have.
She always had extra packets of tea and other stuff under the stairs, I suppose wartime hoarding habits.
What is S.O.E ??
Her father was in the police, "under the crown". When he retired he lived in the old barracks. My mother was brought up by him as her father died when she was only a year old. He worked for the local "landed gentry" and my mother told of the IRA in the 20s, I'd say, calling to let him know that they knew who he was, in case he might be inclined to "inform"
I read a report from the 20s where the IRA "interviewed" a man because they thought he was cooperating with police.
They weren't sure from the interview whether he was or not so 'they shot him just in case'
There are lots of such contemporaneous statements from that time. It was a cruel time.