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" [front. WORDS AND PHRASES INCLUDING SLANG OF THE TRENCHES AND THE AIR FORCE ; GREAT WAR Author of The Soldiers Whom Wellington Led, The Sailors AND JOHN GIBBONS 12th Battalion, The London Regiment (1914-18) “Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, 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 ". NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY. LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. |