The coming of war in Europe, 1914 -- The Ambulance Unit: Friends and all -- Geoffrey Young brings news from abroad -- The Friends are mobilized -- Hospital St. Pierre: the first FAU hospital in France -- Friends in Ypres -- The Sacré Coeur, Ypres: the FAU's first civilian hospital in Belgium -- Typhoid in Flanders: containing the epidemic -- Château Elisabeth Civilian Hospital, Poperinghe -- A programme of welfare in Flanders -- Military matters -- The death of Ypres -- Conclusion.