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BYBlake Stilwell

Feb 15, 2023


This is how British troops got the nickname ‘Tommies’

In the trenches of World War I, German and French troops would call out over the trenches looking for “Tommy” when they wanted to talk to a British soldier. You don’t hear the term quite so much anymore, but for centuries, the nickname reigned s…

This is how British troops got the nickname ‘Tommies’

BYBlake Stilwell

Feb 15, 2023

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020


The last World War I soldier to see combat died at age 111

On Sept. 22, 1917, a British Lewis gun team was hit by an incoming German shell during the third Battle of Ypres, near Passchendaele, Harry Patch was a member of that team. He was blown away by the blast, but his other three teammates were completel…

World War I photo

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

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