Possible Clues:

• No longer working, dress in flamboyant colour
• Withdrawn
• Weary, overdrawn and pensioned off
• Engineers exhausted and in bed?
• Withdrew part of army, exhausted
• Gave up work, extremely reclusive and exhausted
• Soldiers, exhausted, went to bed
• No longer active
• Stopped working, out of order -- it erroneously being set up
• Gone to bed