Ward Muir

Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital (Dodo Press) Ward Muir

The sergeant in charge of the clothing store was curt. He couldn't help it: he had run short of tunics, also of pants"-except three pairs which wouldn't fit me, wouldn't fit anybody, unless we enlisted three very fat dwarfs: he had kept on asking for tunics and pants, and they'd sent him nothing but great-coats and water-bottles: I could take his word for it, he wished he was at the Front, he did, instead of in this blessed hole filling in blessed forms for blessed clothes which never came. Impossible, anyhow, to rig me out. I was going on duty, was I? Then I must go on duty in my "civvies. "