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take his turn with all the other Chaplains, the usual arrange- 

 ment being two or three months in front, and two or three 

 months with a brigade, and then back to a base hospital, and 

 so on. 



Another letter of his says : 



September 24.—" We had a lot of bad cases in yesterday 

 and everyone was very busy, so I was able to make myself useful. 

 We sent out one hundred and forty-six patients, and there was 

 an awful rush. 1 gave quite a lot of them their dinner and 

 helped to dress them. I got quite cute at putting on their 

 socks. One man I gave all his dinner from a spoon, and in the 

 intervals of feeding we discussed the shooting at Faccombe, as 

 he always used to go out beating there." 



September 26. — " I started the day with a Celebration in 

 the attic at 6.45. It was very nice — a huge room with rafters 

 and a peaked roof. To my surprise sixteen Tommies and a 

 nurse came to the service, but there were about fifty Tommies 

 iynig on stretchers round the room. They were as quiet as mice. 

 At ten o'clock we had Matins in the same room. I was amused 

 to see how many of the stretcher cases could raise up when I 

 started ' God save the King.' " 



On October 2, two friends had been accepting Mr. Inglis's 

 hospitality while on their way back to billets, and the Padre 

 had fed them on tinned herrings and tea, followed by a tub 

 in his big bath. Describing this occasion in a letter home, he 

 says, " The tragedy is, they have used my only two clean 

 towels ! " 



This good Padre certainly did not spare himself; the 

 following is an account of one Sabbath day's work. 



October 4. — " It is 10 p.m. I have just got in from my 

 last service. There has been variety in the places where I have 

 held services to-day. I started in one attic at 6.45. I had the 

 next Celebration at the hospital at 7.45. The Altar was the 

 magistrate's desk. The next service was in the attic, and the 

 fourth back at the police-court. At 4.45 I motored some miles 

 to headquarters for a service at 5.15, which was held in a wine- 

 shop. We had to be out of it by 5.45, as the shop began business 

 at that hour. I then motored another four miles, when I was 

 met by the Flying Corps motor and taken another twelve or 



