Some passages from Observations of an Orderly have appeared, generally in a shorter form, in The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Hospital, The Evening Standard, The National News, The Dundee Advertiser, The Daily News, and The Daily Mail. The author desires to make the usual acknowledgments to their editors.

The coloured design on the paper wrapper is by Sergeant Noël Irving, R.A.M.C. (T.), a member of the unit at the 3rd London General Hospital.

CONTENTS

PAGE
I
My First Day[19]
II
Life in the Orderlies' Huts[33]
III
Washing-up[51]
IV
A "Hut" Hospital[65]
V
From the "D Block" Wards[79]
VI
When the Wounded Arrive[93]
VII
"T.... A...."[107]
VIII
Laundry Problems[121]
IX
On Buttons[137]
X
A Word about "Slackers in Khaki"[147]
XI
The Recreation Rooms[159]
XII
The Cockney[173]
XIII
The Station Party[201]
XIV
Slang in a War Hospital[219]
XV
A Blind Man's Home-coming[235]