Major S. L. Walker was posted to this Unit on November 25, 1918, and was afterwards promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. He had been on active service with various Units since the spring of 1915. Colonel Walker was an excellent administrative officer and added strength to the Staff as second in command. The Unit received instructions to take over the special hospital at Camiers from the Dalhousie Unit, which had received orders to proceed to England en route to Canada. This change took place on February 8, 1919, and St. Francis Unit took over the hospital with 900 patients. In a short time the number of patients increased to 1,100 and St. Francis Unit had the honor of being raised to the status of a General Hospital. This gave an opportunity for some well-merited promotions among the officers, non-commissioned officers and men. At this time the Staff was as follows: Col. R. St. John MacDonald Officer Commanding. Lieut.-Col. S. L. Walker Second in Command. Major H. G. Murray In charge Medical Division. Major A. Sterling In charge Surgical Division. Major R. F. Slater Registrar and Paymaster. Major J. R. MacRae Major G. S. Gordon Major S. Sprague Hon. Capt. H. E. Law Quartermaster. Hon. Capt. A. E. Hagar Chaplain. Capt. S. P. H. Morlatt Dental Officer. Capt. F. Hinds Dental Officer. Capt. J. F. Elkerton Capt. J. D. MacDonald Capt. W. M. MacDonald Capt. A. R. Campbell Capt. G. Phillips Capt. S. Whitehouse Capt. G. Zwicker The stay at Camiers was made more pleasant for the personnel and patients by the attention paid to recreation and amusements. A baseball league was formed for the area and many good games were played, in which there was a great deal of enthusiastic interest. There was also much interest taken in tennis and quoits. A moving-picture theatre was constructed and equipped by the Canadian Y.M.C.A., under Capt. A. E. Hagar, which was an unfailing source of pleasure to the patients and personnel. The Y.M.C.A. also established a canteen and furnished a reading room. The Red Cross too, through its representative, Major F. Murphy, contributed very largely to the success of the Unit by providing comforts for the patients and a large amount of sporting equipment. A thrill of pleasant anticipation ran through the Unit when on May 20th orders were received that the patients were to be evacuated at once with a view to demobilization and return to Canada. As soon as the patients were evacuated no time was lost in turning the hospital equipment and supplies in to Ordnance Stores. This was completed on May 28th and on May 30th the Unit moved to Boulogne, crossed to Folkestone the same afternoon and arrived at Witley Camp, Surrey, the next day.