Lilian Annie Margueretta Franklin OBE (1882 – 8 January 1955), known as "Boss",[1] was the British commanding officer of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) until 1932.

[7] The organisation was troubled and Mabel St Clair Stobart formed the rival Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps in 1910.

[2] At the start of 1912, she was a second lieutenant, and she and Sergeant-Major Ashley-Smith won a power struggle with the FANY founder Edward Baker and his daughter, Katie.

Before the First World War started in 1914, Franklin and Ashley-Smith are credited with reinventing the FANY after the disagreement with the founders had been settled.

[1] On New Year's Day, Franklin was in command and she was the first woman driver for the British army as a convoy was formed at Calais.