AKICODW/LJ - word search

[nineveh_uk]

I feel sure that there must be a word - probably specific slang - for this, but I can't think what it could be.

I want to describe someone leaving the British army - voluntarily - at the end of a long career. This is taking place in the 1920s. Essentially he's retiring, but while I can use retiring I feel there should be something more precise.

ETA: Solved!

Comments

[perennialanna]

To be demobbed one must first be mobilised, so it doesn't work for the inter-war period (also, it has implications of involuntarily about it, though not of disgrace).

[nineveh_uk]

It always makes me think of Blackadder's Prince Regent, even though the quote from that is "debagged and radished." But happily "sent in his papers" seems to work just as I need - and is even in Sayers.