| British tommies, pommy toffs, upper class and lower, all are convincingly created by this excellent reader. |
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| But they did make it, and met up with some Tommies, who pointed out which way to go. |
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| She does this not with hackneyed images of shell-shocked Tommies, but principally through simple visual metaphor. |
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| We do get on well because the Tommies did liberate Crete, but what they did immediately afterwards was not made public. |
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| The time is ripe over here for a revival of the song the British Tommies liked to sing on the way to the trenches. |
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| But didn't he, by running those fake pictures, put lives of Tommies at risk? |
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| Thousands of British Tommies passed through on their way from or to the frontline. |
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| Sierra Leone was the object of similar plunder, leaving an acephalous state in rampant disorder only to be stabilised by British Tommies. |
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| France at that time, he says, was full of former Tommies on the run, many of whom had taken up with local girls. |
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| An Irish giant, with his officers and brother Tommies dying and dead around him, he continued the task he had set himself of clearing a way through the Turkish wire. |
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| And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies, with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences. |
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