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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.
		A common belief is that the name was chosen by the Duke of Wellington having been inspired by the bravery of a soldier at the Battle of Boxtel in 1794.
		Rudyard Kipling published the poem Tommy (part of the Barrack Room Ballads - themselves dedicated "To T.A.") in 1892 and in 1893 the music hall song Private Tommy Atkins was published with words by Henry Hamilton and music by S. Potter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommy_Atkins (1587 words)

	Chet Atkins: Mister Guitar - Ask A Player (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tommy Jones started young and was recognized as a child prodigy by Chet Atkins and others.
		Tommy currently resides in Florida and is happy to take your questions.
		Hi Tommy, I am a 17 year old fingerstyle player and my first song learned on the guitar was "The Claw." I am having trouble "Chet" pickin with the thumb pattern.
	www.misterguitar.com /askaplayertommyjones.html (1275 words)

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		Tommy Atkins has long been known for his accurate artillery and rifle fire, but the bayonet is his favorite arm in battle.
		Tommy Atkins doesn't stop to think whether he is doing a brave thing, nor does he wait for orders to do it; he just sets about it as part of the day's work, and looks very much abashed if anybody applauds him for it.
		That is Tommy Atkins' idea of a "Non-stop run to Berlin"--the facetious notice he printed in chalk on the troop trains at Boulogne as, singing "It's a long way to Tipperary," he rolled away to the greatest battles that have ever seared the face of Europe.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16675/16675.txt (18911 words)

	[minstrels] Tommy -- Rudyard Kipling
		For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside"; But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide, The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide, O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.
		Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?" But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.
		Thomas Atkins (also Thomas): a familiar name for the typical private soldier in the British Army; arising out of the casual use of this name in the specimen forms given in the official regulations from 1815 onward: see quots.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/43.html (1413 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Tommy
		The ledger itself quickly became known as the 'Tommy Booklet' and its holder, inevitably, as 'Tommy'.
		Atkins was killed during hand-to-hand fighting in Flanders in 1794, the best man-at-arms in the regiment for all that he could neither read nor write.
		The Duke recalled that as Atkins lay dying his final words to Wellington were "It's all right sir, it's all in a day's work".
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/tommy.htm (258 words)

	Tommy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tommy (rock opera), a rock opera by The Who
		Tommy Luong, the best CAL I player in CS 1.6
		He is central to many Southern tall-tales, one example being when he entered a den of Grizzlies alongside fellow adventurer Dane Hellyer and killed five male bears with his bare hands
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommy (135 words)

	Chapter Tom Folio <i>to</i> Tooth of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Tommy Dodd The “odd” man who, in tossing up, either wins or loses according to agreement with his confederate.
		Tommy Shop Where wages are paid to workmen who are expected to lay out a part of the money for the good of the shop.
		Tommy means bread or a penny roll, or the food taken by a workman in his handkerchief; it also means goods in lieu of money.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1185/24380/2.html (587 words)

	Tommy Emmanuel honours childhood hero » ABC Riverland SA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tommy took to the stage at only four years of age and played in bands with his family including his brother Phil who joins him on this tour.
		Tommy says of Chet "it was my dream to meet him and when I did, I found that he was exactly the person I thought he was, through his music.
		A year later Tommy while was looking for a way to celebrate the life of his mentor he happened to find a tape Chet Atkins had sent him which had an unfinished melody on it.
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/riverland/stories/s1037622.htm (486 words)

	Tommy Atkins Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Tommy Atkins was born on Friday, December 9, 1887, in Ponca, Nebraska.
		Atkins was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on October 2, 1909, with the Philadelphia Athletics.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Tommy Atkins baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=atkinto01 (298 words)

	Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel
		When Tommy Emmanuel was 11, he wrote a letter to his guitar idol.
		Tommy's dad, a former coal miner, took the clan on the road when Tommy was just 6.
		As Atkins grew more ill, Emmanuel was among the few invited to stay at his home.
	www.misterguitar.com /news/annas.html (1206 words)

	ATKINS / TOMMY EMMANUEL, CHET / DAY THE FINGER PICKERS TOOK OVER THE WORLD: Sanity.com.au - More Movies - More Music
		Here, Atkins leaves all of the smooth jazz experiments from the previous decade and a half behind him, choosing superior material for their acoustic guitars, with the rhythm section laying down swinging country-pie tracks underneath.
		Emmanuel's fingerpicking style isn't quite as tied to the rhythm as Atkins'; it's a little sharper in attack, fleeter in technique and a bit flashier in temperament, yet remarkably well-matched to that of the east Tennessee master, almost an alter ego.
		The title track, which Atkins adapted from a lyric that dealt with bass players (as opposed to fingerpickers), finds the two reciting and singing a mock-horror flick tale -- and "Ode to Mel Bay" good-naturedly mocks beginning string players everywhere.
	www.sanity.com.au /product.asp?intProductID=28040&intArtistID=9227 (392 words)

	BBC - History Trail - Wars & Conflict
		His poem ‘Tommy’, one of his Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), expresses the soldier’s contempt for a society which scorns him until there is fighting to be done.
		The name Tommy Atkins, used to describe the typical British soldier, probably originated in a War Office publication of 1815 which showed how a Soldier’s Book should be made out, and gave Pte Thomas Atkins as its example.
		The widespread use of the word Tommy shows how a more affectionate attitude to the soldier was beginning to make itself felt, but the old tensions still survived.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/lj/warslj/army_04.shtml (514 words)

	Under the Stars and Stripes -
		Much of the humour of Tommy is of the schoolboy sort.' He loves for instance, to give people and things nicknames.
		Of course it is, inestimably so; It prevents Tommy from being an up-and-down man. Our happy warriors are as cheerful in adversity as in the hour of victory, and you never have them really beaten.
		Tommy Atkins's very best joke, in my opinion, is his refusal to be wiped out by the Germans; The light-hearted fellow is proving contemptuous instead of contemptible.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/T_Atkins_Humor/T_Atkins_Humor_01.htm (1195 words)

	Chico News and Review July 17, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Having studied at the feet of guitar master Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel has gone on to establish a reputation all his own as one of the most amazing guitar players currently caressing the fingerboard.
		Atkins was also Emmanuel’s mentor and friend for many years.
		To carry Atkins around in one's heart means to carry the spirit of one of the greatest pickers ever.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/chico/2003-07-17/Music.asp (619 words)

	Private Tommy Atkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tommy Atkins is a term used for English soldiers.
		The man had three wounds, a sabre wound on his head, a bayonet wound in his chest and a bullet wound in his lungs.
		The man's name was Tommy Atkins, and his last words to Wellington were, "It's alright sir.
	www.contemplator.com /england/atkins.html (311 words)

	ARS \| Publication request: Effect of Pretreatment of Intact 'kent' and 'tommy Atkins' Mangoes with Ethanol Vapor, Heat ...
		For 'Tommy Atkins' mangoes, ethanol and 1-MCP treatments increased firmness, but only slices from 1-MCP-treated fruit remained firmer in storage.
		By reducing the duration of ethanol treatment to 8 hours on 'Tommy Atkins' intact mangoes, the off flavor noted for 'Kent' disappeared in stored slices, but other quality parameters were not improved.
		Overall, no treatment extended fresh-cut mango shelf life for 'Tommy Atkins', but for 'Kent', spoilage was delayed by two days on all treated pieces.
	www.ars.usda.gov /research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=150709 (436 words)

	Military Images Photos Pictures Forums - Why Tommy Atkins
		The origins of the term "Tommy Atkins" as a nickname for the British (or rather English) soldier are still nebulous and indeed disputed.
		Specimen forms of the "Soldier's Book" issued for both the cavalry and infantry in that year, bore against the space for the soldier's signature; "Tommy Atkins, his X mark".
		The poem "TOMMY" of Rudyard Kipling helped to popularise the name throughout the quarter of the Nineteenth Century and especially during the Boer War, 1899-1902.
	www.militaryimages.net /forums/printthread.php?t=27 (462 words)

	To Thomas Atkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The title was expanded to ‘To Thomas Atkins’ in I.V., 1919 and subsequent collections.
		The name Thomas Atkins was originally used in the example of how a Soldier’s Book (record of service) should be completed.
		The selection of the name has been popularly attributed, like much else, to the Duke of Wellington but there is some evidence that a Thomas Atkins of Odiham, Hampshire, was the soldier servant of Lieutenant General Sir Harry Calvert GCB, who was Adjutant General at the time when his department framed the order.
	www.kipling.org.uk /rg_atkins1.htm (220 words)

	Country Standard Time: CD Review Chet Atkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		True, Atkins is even more amazing now than back then, but hearing "And I Love Her" and "Things We Said Today" as only he can perform them is a timeless pleasure, complemented by Charlie McCoy on harmonica.
		You don't have to be a guitar fan to enjoy Atkins' arrangements that add unexpected harmonies with generous helpings of class.
		With a Chet Atkins album however, you might want to just pour a glass of wine, sit by the fireplace, and kick back.
	members.aol.com /countrystt/CDchetatkins.html (539 words)

	Who is Tommy Atkins? , Tommy was (and still is) the nickname of the British soldier - the typical private. The custom ...
		Tommy was (and still is) the nickname of the British soldier - the typical private.
		When Tommy went off to fight in the First World War (1914-18) he wore a khaki field service dress with web equipment, and he was armed with the famous Lee Enfield rifle.
		One theory is that a soldier of that name was mortally wounded under Wellington in Holland, and that many years later Wellington, when Secretary of State, adopted the name in the army form.
	www.4to40.com /QA/index.asp?counter=28&category= (256 words)

	Tommy Atkins
		In 1898 William McGonagall wrote Lines In Praise of Tommy Atkins, which was attack on what McGonagall saw as the disparaging portrayal of Tommy in Kipling's poem.
		2 "Private Tommy Atkins" lyrics by Henry Hamilton, music by S. Potter
		3 "Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins" by William McGonagall
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tommy_atkins.html (1494 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Tommy Atkins (A).
		A British soldier, as a Jack Tar is a British sailor.
		The War Office sent with each little book a form for filling it in, and the hypothetical name selected, instead of John Doe and Richard Roe (selected by lawyers), or M. (selected by the Church), was “Tommy Atkins.”
		The books were instantly so called, and it did not require many days to transfer the name from the book to the soldier.
	www.bartleby.com /81/16616.html (160 words)

	One Side of Kipling - William M. Salter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born off in India, where the soldier is plentifully in evidence, since only by force is India kept under British control, Kipling had been a boon companion with him, shared by sympathy his experience, caught his tone and his very tricks of speech.
		Looting is celebrated, drunken brawls and cracked heads are celebrated, something that would not be too much dignified by calling it polygamy is celebrated -- or if not "celebrated," then described with such gusto that it is difficult to know what is the proper word to use.
		The English may love the Soudanese, and Tommy Atkins does admire their fighting capacity, but it is a kind of love and admiration not inconsistent with killing them.
	www.boondocksnet.com /ai/kipling/salter_kipling.html (3623 words)

	Kipling's Tommy Atkins
		I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
		An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
		More information may be found in the source of this file.
	faxmentis.org /html/kipling.html (488 words)

	Winsor School \| Favorite Poems - Tommy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I was raised on 19th century British children's stories, poetry, and other British literature where soldiers were depicted as both glorious, amazing men and men with the social status nearly equivalent to a beggar.
		As I began to better understand social justice, I admired 'Tommy' for the way it portrays the contrasting treatment of Tommy/Mr.
		I also love reading it aloud.My dad read it to me in a Cockney accent when I was little." She submitted this poem and read it on April 15, 2005, as part of the "Favorite Poems Project" at the Winsor School.
	www.winsor.edu /pages/sitepage.cfm?id=1034 (564 words)

	65A-26 Physiology of tommy atkins mango slices stored in modified atmospheres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Our objective of this work was to evaluate changes in composition of Tommy Atkins mango slices during storage with MA and refrigerated temperatures.
		Mangoes were cut in 2 x 1 cm slices under sterile conditions and placed in either petri dishes, sealed plastic bags (MA), or rigid trays contained inside sealed plastic bags (MA).
		Further research is required to investigate the effect of different ripening stages at the time of mechanical cutting, such that product quality may be maintained.
	ift.confex.com /ift/2000/techprogram/paper_4367.htm (372 words)

	Tommy Atkins
		It is given to very few to have the privilege of starting a School such as this, and to see it grow through all stages up to the big institution familiar to the present generation of students.
		The real "Atkins Memorial" is, however, the abiding respect and affection of the thousands who have passed through the School in those years and are now filling their place in the world all the better for his influence-whether through close personal contact or through the atmosphere created by his kindly and considerate rule.
		Mr Atkins gained the Bowman-Cameron Scholarship for General Proficiency and was prox.
	faxmentis.org /html/tommy.html (630 words)

	screenonline: Tommy Atkins in the Park (1898)
		The term 'Tommy Atkins' seems to have been used as a generic nickname for an English soldier since at least the mid-eighteenth century, but it gained wide popularity with the publication of
		's poem 'Tommy' in 1892 and the music-hall song 'Private Tommy Atkins' (by Henry Hamilton and S.Potter) the following year.
		's film was first shown, English soldiers were universally known as 'Tommies', a nickname that even the Germans used during the First and Second World Wars.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/727290 (224 words)

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