In Britain at the outset of the First World War the services of trained medical women were rejected by the War Office. Serbia, with its thousands of wounded, few doctors, and no nurses, gladly welcomed them.
There are a few of those women for whom the years with the Serbian Army are still vivid. In this film four of them remember the struggle to care for the wounded in overcrowded hospitals; the typhus epidemic which swept the country and claimed some of their own comrades; the great retreat across the Albanian mountains in winter. Taking part: Dr Katharine Macphail, Anna Christitch, Francesca Wilson, Dorothy Newhall.