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Updated: June 5, 2025
Having furnished the preliminary statements which lay the foundation of this compendious memoir, the walking-case thankfully finishes his cocoa, picks up the package of "blues" which has been put at his side, and departs, with his fellows, to the bathroom. Here he is tackled by the Pack Store orderlies, who take from him, and enter in their books, his khaki clothes.
The bath is thus a pleasure more than a necessity. Whereas there was an era, when our guests came straight from only too populous trenches.... "O.C. Baths," as the bathroom orderly was nicknamed, had to be circumspect in the performance of his job. The few minutes which the walking-case spends in the receiving hall are occupied in drinking a cup of cocoa, and in "having his particulars taken."
The walking-cases are the first to arrive men who are either not ill enough, or not badly enough wounded, to need to be put on stretchers in ambulances. They come from the station in motor-cars supplied by that indefatigable body, the London Ambulance Column. The walking-case alights from his car, is conducted into the receiving hall, and ten minutes later is in the bathroom.
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