Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases: Including Slang of the Trenches and the Air Force; British and American War-words and Service Terms and Expressions in Everyday Use; Nicknames, Sobriquets, and Titles of Regiments, with Their Origins. The Battle-honours of the Great War Awarded to the British ArmyEdward Fraser, John Gibbons |
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1st Battalion 2nd Battalion aeroplane Air Force Aisne Albert allusion Amiens Ancre Heights Arleux Armentières Arras Aubers Bailleul Bapaume Bassée Bazentin Beaurevoir Bellewaarde bluejacket's British Broodseinde Cambrai Canal du Nord Cateau Concert Party Corps Courtrai Delville Wood Doiran DRAGOONS Drocourt-Quéant Egypt enemy Épéhy Estaires expression Festubert Flers-Courcelette Foot France and Flanders French Frezenberg Fusiliers Gallipoli Gaza German Gheluvelt Grand Fleet Guards Guillemont Hazebrouck Hindenburg Line HUSSARS Jerusalem Julien Kemmel Kut al Amara Landing at Suvla Langemarck Le Cateau Light Infantry LONDON REGIMENT Loos Macedonia Marne Megiddo Menin Road Messines Morval Mughar name given Naval Navy term Nebi Samwil Neuve Chapelle Nicknames of Regiments Nonne Bosschen officers Old Army Originally Palestine Passchendaele phrase Pilckem Poelcappelle Polygon Wood Pozières Pursuit to Mons Quentin Canal Retreat from Mons Rhyming slang rifle Rosières Royal Sambre Scarpe Scimitar Hill Service shell soldier Somme Suvla Tell Asur Transloy troops Western Front word YEOMANRY Ypres