khaki-wearers

Updated: May 9, 2025

As it happened, I and my mate on the stretcher were the first khaki-wearers to invade that particular van-ward. And as we steered our stretcher in at the door and down the aisle of cots a shout arose from the wounded lying there: "Here are some real soldiers!" It was too bad.

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital