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Truth About the Legion 188: A French word of zouaver was coined; it meant to ‘swagger like a Zouave’, to be, in fact, a bit of a lad! at bit of a lad (n.) under bit of (a), n.
Truth About the Legion 188: A French word of zouaver was coined; it meant to ‘swagger like a Zouave’, to be, in fact, a bit of a lad! (con. 1918) Truth About the Legion 205: [T]he sergeant called us up for the very last time of all and presented us each with a railway voucher and a pound on account of back pay and gratuity. We could now as he put it B— Off .at bugger off, v.
Truth About the Legion 105: It might, however, happen sometimes that even he would have to be arrested and then in that case he would do his cells like any other drunk.at cells, n.
Truth About the Legion 188: The corps was raised by a Catholic Englishman who had been an Officer in the old ‘John Company’ army of pre-Mutiny India .at John Company, n.
Truth About the Legion 65: The line is narrow-gauge, and the train’s twenty miles an hour does not of course make it a flyer.at flyer, n.3
Truth About the Legion 174: [A]ll movements at the double exactly as in an English ‘glasshouse’ or Military Prison.at glasshouse, n.
Truth About the Legion 204: I was getting my Discharge. [...] we were formed up into a sort of cripple parade; and a bored sergeant awaiting his own ‘ticket’ tried to march us down to Litherland Station .at ticket, n.1
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