completings

Updated: May 18, 2025

There had been vague stirrings in the regiments far behind the firing line 'in rest, refittings and completings of kits, reissuing of worn equipments, and a most ominous anxiety that each man was duly equipped with an 'identity disc, the tell-tale little badge that hangs always round the neck of a man on active service and that bears the word of who he is when he is brought in wounded who he was when brought in dead.

Boyd Cable - Between the Lines