Our Casualty, and Other Stories / 1918

A collection of comic short stories set in a provincial community where an elderly volunteer veterans’ corps, parish clergy, medical officers, shopkeepers, and neighbors negotiate wartime anxieties and everyday pretensions. Episodes range from mock-military parades and social rivalries to bureaucratic mishaps such as a wounded private mistakenly recorded as dead, and they use irony and quiet satire to expose officious procedure, human vanity, and small-town solidarity. Character sketches shift between affectionate caricature and gentle social critique, emphasizing how duty, discipline, and local custom collide with common sense and personal eccentricities.