separated from
Hospital A. We can only, of course, follow the fortunes of Hospital A,
which was directly under Dr. Inglis.

The night of the retreat is made vivid for us by Dr. Inglis:

"The station was a curious sight that night. The flight was
beginning. A crowd of people was collected at one end with boxes
and bundles and children. One little boy was lying on a doorstep
asleep, and against the wall farther on lay a row of soldiers. On
the bench to the right, under the light, was a doctor in his white
overall, stretched out sound asleep between the two rushes of work
at the station dressing-room; and a Roumanian officer talked to me
of Glasgow, where he had once been invited out to dinner, so he had
seen the British 'custims.' It was good to feel those British
customs were still going quietly on, whatever was happening
here--breakfasts coming regularly, hot water for baths, and
everything as it should be. It was probably absurd, but it came
like a great wave of comfort to feel that Britain was there, quiet,
strong, and invincible, behind everything and everybody."

A member of the Unit also gives us details:[16]

"I went twice down to the station with baggage in the evening, a
perilous journey in rickety carts through pitch darkness over roads (?)
crammed with troops and refugees, which were lit up periodically by the
most amazing green lightning I have ever seen, and the roar and flash of
the guns was incessant. At the station no lights were allowed because of
enemy aircraft, but the place was illuminated here and there by the camp
fires of a new Siberian division which had just arrived. Picked troops
these, and magnificent men.

"We wrestled with the baggage until 2 a.m., and went back to the
hospital in one of our own cars. Our orderly came in almost in tears.
Her cart had twice turned over completely on its way to the station; so
on arrival she had hastened to Dr. Inglis with a tale of woe and a
scratched face. Dr. Inglis said: 'That's right, dear child, that's
right, _stick_ to the equipment,' which may very well be described as
the motto of the Unit these days!...

"The majority of the Unit are to go to Galatz by train with Dr. Corbett;
the rest (self included) are to go by road with Dr. Inglis, and work
with the army as a clearing station.

"On the morning of October 22 the train party got off as quick as
possible, and about 4 p.