Blighty one

plural Blighty ones

1. slanggovernmentA wound that is relatively minor, but sufficiently severe that one will be sent to the hospital in England.

   'Well, Smudge,' says Danny, 'I heard you'd copped a Blighty One.'

   2014, Tony Bradman, Stories of World War One, →ISBN

   3 more examples

   Though my thoughts did not formulate themselves so clearly or so crudely at the time, I had a “Blighty” one, that sort of wound that all the soldiers sighed and sang for (“Take me back to dear old Blighty”), and my platoon, in which I had taken much pride, could now look after itself.

   2012, J. R. Ackerley, My Father and Myself, →ISBN

   'Well, lad, you've got yourself a Blighty one, by the looks!' The orderly patted Mark's neatly bandaged torso.

   2014, Judith Saxton, The Glory, →ISBN

   How often on the march one had looked back oneself into a passing ambulance and wished, rather shamefully, for a “Blighty” one.

   2014, E.G.D. Living, Walking into Hell 1st July 1916: Memoirs of the First Day of the Somme, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Blighty