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Blighty wound
noun · first attested 1910s
The most desirable thing on the Western Front was a bullet in the right place.
In First World War soldiers' slang, a wound serious enough to get a man sent home to Britain but not serious enough to kill him.
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Blighty wound
Blighty was British soldiers' mangling of Hindi and Urdu vilayati, meaning foreign, picked up in India and applied to Britain in France from about 1915. A Blighty one or Blighty wound meant a ticket out of the trenches, and troops sang about it openly. Inflicting one on yourself was a court-martial offense.
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