12Calais, Sunday, 29 July 1917
Officers began leaping from the train before it had come to a stop, all racing towards the transport office at the end of the platform. Matron Kenny hesitated as she climbed down from the carriage. ‘I was told I had to be smart to beat the rush, but I never expected anything like this. How am I going to fight my way through that mob?’
The Number 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station was being established at Brandhoek, close to the front line, but so far only twenty sisters and Matron Kenny had been released from the British hospitals they’d been attached to. The others would join them over the next weeks.
‘You’d think officers would have more manners,’ Matron Kenny said, glaring at the melee. ‘I wish I knew which trains we should catch. Then I wouldn’t ha
