"_October 28th, 1916._
"DEAREST AMY,
"Just a line to say I am all right. Four weeks to-morrow since we
reached Medjidia and began our hospital. We evacuated it in three
weeks, and here we are all back on the frontier.... Such a time it
has been, Amy dear; you cannot imagine what war is just behind the
lines. And in a retreat....

"Our second retreat--and almost to the same day. We evacuated
Kraguevatz on the 25th of October last year. We evacuated Medjidia
on the 22nd this year. On the 25th this year we were working in a
Russian dressing-station at Harshova, and were moved on in the
evening. We arrived at Braila to find 11,000 wounded and seven
doctors, only one of them a surgeon.

"Boat come--must stop--am going back to Braila to do surgery. Have
sent every trained person there.

"Ever, you dear, dear people,
"Your loving sister,
"ELSIE.

"We have had lots of exciting things too--and amusing things--and
_good_ things."


Two further retreats had, however, to be experienced by Dr. Inglis and
her Unit before they could settle down to steady work. The three
retreats took place in the following order: