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	Tommy Atkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tommy Atkins (often just Tommy) is a term for a common soldier in the British Army that is particularly associated with World War I.
		When most of the Europeans in Lucknow were fleeing to the British Residency for protection, a private of the 32nd Regiment of Foot remained on duty at an outpost.
		The Last Tommy - a campaign to mark the passing of the last WWI Tommy with a state funeral.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommies (1845 words)

	Boer War Battlefields Talana Hill Magersfontein
		But the British were slow to discover that this style of warfare, which they had carried out successfully for so many years, demanded drastic changes.
		The British cavalry unit, sent to cut off the fleeing Boers, was itself captured and sent as prisoners of war to Pretoria.
		British Tactics: Buller opted for an infantry assault over the road bridge in the town - which, inexplicably, the Boers had neglected to blow up - to get his army quickly to the north bank of the Tugela.
	www.goldiproductions.com /BoerWar_Museum/Boer28_battles1.html (2158 words)

	WWII Excerpts from "Cairo, Biography of a City"
		British soldiers seeing sun and desert and clean air for the first time in their lives looked hungrily at the beautiful European girls who swished their pretty legs in the streets and on the trams and in the cafes.
		British trucks and soldiers and equipment poured into the Delta, and the British army retreated as far as Cairo in a disorderly panic, which became known in Egypt among the British themselves as “the flap”.
		British headquarters and the British Residency were literally under a cloud of smoke for days as they burned all their vital papers preparing to get out.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/wwiicairo.htm (2410 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Books - Waiting for the Tommies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Unbelievably, one half of the 120,000 British troops committed to the battle were killed or wounded, a total greater than the combined British combat losses in the Crimean, Boer and Korean conflicts.
		British universities were even persuaded to import that strange German innovation, the research degree or PhD.
		When the first British troops taken prisoner in 1914 sportingly tried to shake hands with their captors, they were beaten up for their pains.
	living.scotsman.com /books.cfm?id=957412006 (1591 words)

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		A British officer, summoned from his dugout, ordered his men to keep the Germans away, since the apparently friendly proposals could be a ruse to get a close-up examination of the British trenches.
		British cheers and applause at the carol's finale were acknowledged by bows from the equally enthusiastic performers.
		British troops who had been home on Christmas leave were chagrined when they got back to their lines to lean of the remarkable scenes they had missed over the previous two days.
	www.ap.presbyterian.org.au /articles/christmas_one.htm (4226 words)

	Shamrock Jihad? UK Blames IRA Bombs on Iranians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		British aid to these Islamists has actually impeded the July 7 investigation as inquiries threaten to stray into regional British intelligence operations.
		British intelligence, on Tony Blair's orders, is claiming the devices were given to local Shia insurgents by the Iranians, through their Lebanese Shia Hizbullah proxy.
		British "security" -- which is adept at hassling veterans for flying their nation's flag, prosecuting patriots who warn of the Islamic danger, or seizing politically-incorrect newspapers -- is so blinded with political correctness that it has actually become an adjunct of jihad.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /printer.php?id=6546 (442 words)

	CHARLES LUTTON: The Miracle of Dunkirk Reconsidered
		Reviewing events from the German invasion of Western Europe on 10 May 1940 to the decision of the British government to withdraw its forces from the continent, Harmon discovered that the long-held assertion that Britain was let down by her French and Belgian allies is a myth.
		Some British troops were supplied with dumdum bullets-lethal missiles expressly banned by the Geneva Convention on the rules of war.
		The British public was not informed that an evacuation was underway until 6pm on 31 May. A Small Vessels Pool, based on Sheerness, did assemble a large number of small civilian craft.
	www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/2/4/Lutton375-380.html (1815 words)

	British National Party - Privates on parade
		Add to that the unpopularity of the British Army being used as a private mercenary force for the oil industry in Iraq and its social work role in places such as Kosovo and Sierra Leone amongst the more thinking members of society and the generals have a serious problem.
		The British Army, the regiments of the once feared British Tommy, the Army which has fought and won on every continent, has witnessed countless deeds of heroism, self-sacrifice and bravery is targeting the gay and lesbian “community” in a bid to make up the short fall.
		Is the British Army going to be embroiled in legal disputes or will the tabloids report even worse the tragic suicide of young recruits who were “approached” and made the object of affections by a senior; a gay corporal or sergeant perhaps with his eye on the young men in his charge.
	www.bnp.org.uk /news_detail.php?newsId=488 (975 words)

	Passport to Manhood: North Africa
		The Tommies one "battledress" winter uniform never got cleaned and was supposed to last "the duration." GI's, had several uniforms, one dress was for on leave.
		British Tommies were issued WWI leather soled boots into which hobnails were driven.
		I remember once having a British Tommy in with a group of sick Legionnaires I was scheduled to drive the long distance to Cairo.
	www.passport-to-manhood.com /ww2nafrica.html (6847 words)

	madhibaan.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Two British Tommies in short pants, with machine pistols on slings over their shoulders, escorted us off the airplane from Mogadishu, Somalia, at the airport in Aden in what is now Yemen in South Arabia.
		He raised the Somali resistance to the British, Ethiopian and Italian encroachment on the Somalis' territory that resulted in sporadic and horrible war between 1899 and 1920.
		We were installed at the Hargeisa Hotel, a British establishment reminiscent of Fawlty Towers, a hotel mostly in name only, where the bar functioned as the social center of the expat community.
	www.madhiban.com /in-depth/lions-share-story.htm (10812 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Hell’s Highway to Arnhem
		To American GI’S and British Tommies up front, heartened by six weeks of unrelieved victory, the chances of being home by Christmas were beginning to look very good indeed.
		This airdrop was to be coordinated with a “rapid and violent” thrust by a British armored column along the Arnhem highway.
		In tactical command was British Lieutenant General Frederick Browning, dapper and brusque, the husband of novelist Daphne du Maurier.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1971/4/1971_4_60.shtml (5861 words)

	Flanders
		In all probability, some bragging British sergeant had undertaken to tell a crowd of willing listeners all the horrors of the trenches, real and imagined, spreading the butter too thickly; the American, envious of the older man's experience, had maliciously given the impression that he was a near-Bolshevik.
		Those who were fortunate enough to visit the British front line really had something to write about, and were the center of interest upon their return from the region of Gommescourt Wood and Fonquesvillers, ground which had recently been retaken from the Germans in their strategic retreat to the Hindenburg line.
		Even the English Tommies at the head of the column for the purpose of setting the proper experienced pace, and who carried no packs, were well-nigh overcome by the heat.
	www.longwood.k12.ny.us /history/upton/3053.htm (6153 words)

	WWII Close Air Support - North Africa
		Counterattacking, French and British forces, as well as II Corps units in the region, took heavy losses, even though commanders concentrated the bulk of the Allied air support resources and ground forces in the central region.
		On the twenty-second British Tommies and Churchill tanks stopped a German Panzer unit near the border of Tunisia and Algeria, an event which seemed to take the spirit out of Rommel's offensive.
		While Eisenhower was opposed to the British "committee system"" of command, he also advocated a commander having the flexibility to organize forces to suit national proclivities, and he gave Coningham the freedom to operate by his own style.
	www.usaaf.net /has/jops/kasserine.htm (3347 words)

	First World War.com - Vintage Photographs - Aviation
		British seaplane on the coast of German East Africa
		British airmen prepare to take a photograph of the enemy lines
		British airplane after crashing into a tree; the pilot was unhurt
	www.firstworldwar.com /photos/aviation.htm (381 words)

	National nicknames - www.ezboard.com
		Can someone give a list of names that were used by each of the French, British, Russians, and the Americans to refer to the Germans, and likewise the opposite way round.
		When I was a sophmore my history teacher said that the British called the Americans the "Doughboys" because they were "soft", they hadn't seen battle at all yet and didn't think the Americans would last in trenches.
		In WWI, British and Commonwealth soldiers referred to their Portuguese allies as 'pork and beans', referring to a vile kind of canned food.
	pub133.ezboard.com /fpanzer4520frm7.showMessage?topicID=204.topic (962 words)

	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is even said the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in one of his moments of pique over the obstinacy of the BEF Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, seriously considered giving Haig's job to Monash.
		The 1st Division was one of the units set in pursuit of the German Army as it voluntarily withdrew to its new defence fortifications along east of the Somme battlefield.
		Regarded by both the British and German commands as an impregnable fortress, many historians believe the capture of Mont St. Quentin to be the most skilfully conducted action of the war on the Western Front.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/research/anzac.htm (3603 words)

	Brave Tommies in The AnswerBank: Phrases & Sayings
		British, or more particularly English, soldiers, especially 'other ranks', were for the best part of 200 years known generically as 'Tommy Atkins'.
		Specimen forms of the Soldier's Book issued for both the cavalry and infantry in that year have 'Tommy Atkins, his X mark' next to the space for the soldier's signature.
		However, the term did eventually become more acceptable to the 'ordinary British Tommy' and was used without irony by Empire forces from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, as well as by the Americans, French and Germans.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article3042.html (670 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- The key to Ladysmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the latter, some 12 000 British 'Tommies' were faced with a timeless military dilemma: the defence of a besieged town.
		Even British soldiers, despite the hardships of waging war on the South African veld, occasionally saw the lighter side of the conflict and mentioned it in their diaries or correspondence.
		However, the purpose of this article was merely to illustrate, through the examples of the symbolical key and the personification of the town of Ladysmith, that although history repeats itself (in 1993, people are still suffering in besieged towns as they did in 1900), the reactions to such suffering differ as society's values change.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol094gt.html (2483 words)

	CDL Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His villa is surrounded by a double barbed wire fence and is guarded by scores of British Tommies.
		Spurred on by him and fellow-Zionists, the United Nations obediently decreed that at the expiration of the British Mandate, the Holy Land should be partitioned into two areas; the smaller to be governed by Arabs, the larger by Jews.
		The acts of Jewish terrorism that had marked the final months of the British Mandate (when Jews were blowing up British buildings in Palestine, hanging British soldiers, mailing time-bombs to members of the British cabinet) seemed like mere schoolboy pranks when the Jews went to work on the Arabs.
	www.cdlreport.com /articles.htm (2362 words)

	Tommy's army life
		Why "Tommies life?" British soldiers were always known as Tommies, after Thomas Atkins the archetypal soldier.
		It was nothing to do with the Tommy Gun, the Thompson sub machine gun of a later war.
		All of these things are part of the history; but the facts of a typical Tommy's life paint a rather different and perhaps surprising picture.
	www.1914-1918.net /menu_life.htm (164 words)

	The Imperialism Canard
		It means, if it is to mean anything concrete, the appropriation of others' territory, goods and people at the barrel of a gun.
		Even one of the milder empires in world history, the British Empire, was essentially an imposition of brute force on large parts of the globe in order to generate wealth and cheap goods for the domestic market.
		He's a man who presides over a fake nation, contrived by British imperialists; a man who tried to invade and annex Iran; and then tried to invade and annex Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=3765 (744 words)

	THR - Tommy
		The best I can come up with is that "Tommies" is an archaic British slang term for army rations, and that over time the term came to be applied to the troops themselves.
		January 26th, 2003 11:38 AM Seems to be from Tommy Atkins(?).
		Said to be derived from a British soldier who distinguished himself at the battle of Waterloo.
	www.thehighroad.org /printthread.php?t=5862 (277 words)

	H-Net Review: Jane Karoline Vieth on Good-bye Piccadilly: British War Brides in America
		Just as the British Tommies were leaving for the front in droves, the American G.I. arrived; all this combined with the heightened tensions and emotions of wartime and the biological state of early adulthood.
		She writes that "the British and American governments were far more concerned about not injuring the alleged father's sensibilities than they were about gaining compensation for the mother" (p.
		As Virden persuasively argues, the story of the British war brides has been ignored by scholars studying immigration because they have incorrectly assumed that the common Anglo-American language, history, and culture meant that brides assimilated easily.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21993910108509 (1596 words)

	eBay - british football, Fan Apparel Souvenirs, Coins World items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		British American Football: Titans Vs Bulls Prog 1985
		British Bulldog Flag oi skinhead football Hooligan rare
		BRITISH ARMY Flag football Patriot Britain Soldier Iraq
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=british+football&... (324 words)

	Land of the Stalking Death - Armeniapedia.org
		And so, it was not without curiosity that I, as an average American, caught from a British transport's deck my first glimpse of those mountain-ringed shores which the maps of one's childhood depicted as a pea-grean isthmus lying between the Black and Caspian Seas.
		Though we had American flour aboard, a British guard, Russian-built cars, an Armenian cook, and a Georgian engineer, we were not sufficiently polyglot to read the station signs, all of which had been changed from Russian lettering to that of Georgia's own peculiar alphabet.
		Yet the red flags which presently sprouted all along the line apprised us that we were traveling on the anniversary of the Russian revolution, and hence of Georgia's second birthday as a republic.
	armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Land_of_the_Stalking_Death (2090 words)

	Charles P. Edwards. An AFS Driver Remembers. (Draft manuscript) 2002. Part Two.
		To circumvent possible Axis control of this pathway, the British 9th Army in June-July 1941 occupied the Vichy French Mandates of Lebanon and Syria while reinforcing the British Mandate in Palestine.
		One was at a British post in the snow-covered mountains together with Chan Keller where "we almost froze to death." Although based at Damascus, I reported that "three different assignments" revealed "various phases of life out here...
		The two British Friend's Ambulance Unit fellows are busy dishing out medicines while the Doc interviews the patients, flattens them out on one of my stretchers propped up on an old box, and feels their guts...
	www.intercultura.it /P03.001/chisiamo/charles_edwards/fox03.html (10185 words)

	Ladies and Gentlemen
		Should we agree that British were historically engaged in dishonest political activities: devastating Indians, fighting off Spain colonies, enslaving Africans, terrorizing Arab nations, cheating American Indians, surrendering World War 2 prisoners to Soviets, humiliating Ireland.
		Over their history the lie and cowardy was their main tool and they pretty much like to stick to it.
		Even in British parliament you can count by fingers of one hand those educated jerks who undertook an effort to learn foreign language.
	members.tripod.com /kosovo99/ladies.htm (535 words)

	Terror versus Truth in Canada: An Interview With Ernst Zündel -- Free Speech, June 1995
		As a matter of fact, I was in Western Canada, in British Columbia, at the time to meet with my long-standing attorney Douglas Christie to talk about legal moves against public officials and some of these Marxists and Jewish agitators that were saying they were going to drive me out of the neighborhood.
		If that is true, then all the GIs, all the British Tommies, all the Canadian soldiers, and all the other soldiers that were part of this coalition of 51 countries that were at war with Germany, have to take responsibility for what has befallen the Western world today, and the world generally.
		The subjugation by Stalin of half of Europe: 250 million Europeans that lived for half a century under this horrific Soviet empire, and all of the millions of deaths that ensued as a result of that -- they are responsible for that.
	www.natall.com /free-speech/fs956a.html (5351 words)

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