Blighty bag

noun

A small bag that holds a wounded soldier's personal effects and accompanies him to hospital.

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Meanings

nounBlighty bag (plural Blighty bags)

plural Blighty bags

  1. slanggovernmentA small bag that holds a wounded soldier's personal effects and accompanies him to hospital.

    Carrie May Hall: "Tell the women to make 'Blighty' bags!

    1991, Dorothy Schneider, Carl J. Schneider, Into the breach: American women overseas in World War I, page 298
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    Two lightly wounded men, detailed to help, took his belongings and put them in a 'Blighty bag,' carefully marking his name, rank, serial number, and unit.

    2005, John Warner, Emperor of the East Slope, →ISBN, page 84

    Their treasures are put in little bags, ′Blighty bags′, the boys call them.

    2018, Susanna de Vries, Australian Heroines of World War One, →ISBN

Origin

From Blighty one (“a wound that gets one sent away from the front to hospital”).

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