SOLDIER AND SAILOR

WORDS AND PHRASES

SCENE: NEAR LOOS, DURING THE RECENT GREAT OFFENSIVE Colonel FitzShrapnel receives the following message from "G.H.Q.":"Please let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of raspberry jam issued to you last Friday"

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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 ARMY

Author of The Soldiers Whom Wellington Led, The Sailors
Whom Nelson Led, The War Drama of the Eagles,
Napoleon the Gaoler, Famous Fighters of the Fleet, etc., etc.

AND

JOHN GIBBONS

12th Battalion, The London Regiment (1914-18)

Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas,
Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli ".

"

Juvenal, Sat. I., 85-6

Our Armies swore terribly in Flanders ".

Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii., ch. 2

"It's very odd that Sailor-men should talk so very queer ".
Ingoldsby Legends: Misadventures at Margate

NEW YORK:

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY.

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.

1925.