Youve got a touch of pneumonia, said the medical officer
after examining the new enlistee.
Are you sure, sir? queried one worried man. I have known people
in civvy street to be told they have pneumonia but then to die of
something quite different.
You are not in civil life, Samson. Youre in the Army! thundered
the medical officer. And if you get treated in the Army for
pneumonia, you die of pneumonia.
