He LUMPED IT down at once. Lump the lighter , to be transported
He was invalided out with (as I have always understood it) trench foot or feet, a painful condition caused by prolonged immersion in water or mud, marked by swelling, blistering, and some degree of necrosis. He returned to England at an unspecified date, and was discharged on 13 November 1917, along with twenty others from his regiment, as No longer physically fit for service. He was then twenty-eight, and oddlyI assume mistakenlylisted as a private in the records of discharge
We shouldnt be encouraging anybody to take up the habit
This included a little of everything ranging from a graduate-level course introductory space science to simulator training and scuba-diving
Instead, windproof lighters mix the fuel with air and pass the butaneair mixture through a catalytic coil