The braid trailed down her bloody uniform, hair pulling out of it.

'Well,' he said bitterly, 'he was right about the bloody uniforms, anyway.'

Abandoned 88-mm guns hastily set up by the defenders in the last few days stand silent, surrounded by bodies in bloody grey uniforms.

"I will not wear that bloody uniform."

Get your bloody uniform and we'll let you act the peacock for a few hours.

Each week the couple handle mounds of dirty, muddy, sometimes bloody uniforms.

And without bloody uniforms, how the hell will we know our friends from our enemies?

Officers in bloody, tattered blue uniforms were carried into nearby hospital wards, some of them wailing, their faces streaked with tears.

Back in the light we marveled at the evening's most visible consequence: ripped, muddy and bloody uniforms.

For the next few weeks - seven games - we wore increasingly foul and bloody and torn uniforms.