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

[legionseagle]

"Sent in my papers" is used in The Four Feathers (set 1882 but written in 1902) but Sayers uses it also in The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club which is set in the 20s some time

[nineveh_uk]

Absolutely perfect!