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Observations of an Orderly
Ward Muir
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Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running, and relive some tales from within the hospital walls.
Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running, and relive some tales from within the hospital walls.
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On the whole I am inclined to pronounce the pudding-basin a more obdurate utensil than even the dinner-tin. The pudding-basin, however, only appeared every second morning. On duff days (duff being served in the same tin as the meat and vegetables, though in a separate compartment) we had no pudding. By pudding I mean milk pudding—rice or sago or tapioca. Now a milk pudding, such as those my patients received, though perhaps it was looked askance at in the nursery, is food which, as an adult, I am far from despising. Rice pudding I have come with maturer years to regard as a delicacy. Sago and tapioca I still eat rather with amiable resignation [Pg 59]than from choice. But any milk pudding, as I now know, has a most vicious habit of cleaving to the dish in which it was cooked. Rice is the least evil offender. The o. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
What exactly did an orderly in the Great War do? It was that question that brought me to this book which indeed answered my question. In short, a World War 1 orderly was, "a cross between a valet and a waiter, with a subtle dash of chambermaid."
With no shortage of humor, I also learned how dirty lau
I came across Ward Muir in British Library anthology series, Tales of the Weird. It was his short story Sargasso. This World War I memoir is out of print and I had to get it through forgotten books reprint. It is beyond me , as to how this book can be out of print.
It is witty, sarcastic, and comic.
An interesting account of an orderly in war hospital during the great war.
By today’s standards some of the language used to describe people of different races ect would be unacceptable but one has to bear in mind the time period in which this book was written.