![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
diary 14 Dec. Long Carry (1970) 19: Two dead Jerries were brought down to H.Q.at Jerry, n.
diary 14 Dec. Long Carry (1970) 19: Two dead Jerries were brought down to H.Q. diary 20 Nov. Long Carry (1970) 10: My Company Officer was [...] known as ‘Nellie’ to the troops, because of his girlish face and swanky ways.at nellie, n.
diary 23 Nov. Long Carry (1970) 10: The ‘old sweats’ told me that it seemed a mutual arrangement between Fritz and ourselves.at old sweat (n.) under sweat, n.
diary 28 Nov. Long Carry (1970) 14: This was about 3.30 a.m., all felt ‘whacked to the wide.’.at whacked, adj.
diary 28 Nov. Long Carry (1970) 14: This was about 3.30 a.m., all felt ‘whacked to the wide.’.at to the wide (adj.) under wide, n.
diary 8 Feb. Long Carry (1970) 30: Fritz made a bombing attack to the right of our front [...] and there was general ‘breeze up’ for some time.at breeze-up (n.) under breeze, n.1
diary 31 Oct. Long Carry (1970) 124: Our Company Stretcher Bearers had a roomy Fritz dugout.at Fritz, adj.
diary 29 Nov. Long Carry (1970) 96: ‘Toby’ Martin and I spent some time digging ourselves a good funk hole.at funkhole (n.) under funk, n.2
diary 10 July Long Carry (1970) 64: Our company was accommodated in two Jerry concrete dugouts.at Jerry, adj.
diary 21 July Long Carry (1970) 67: After the ‘strafe’ [we] returned to find some of our dugouts ‘Na pooh’.at napoo, adj.
diary 8 Mar. Long Carry (1970) 33: These were ‘posh’ places compared to the usual dugouts. [Ibid.] 13 Nov. 92: Little did we think [...] that we were leaving the Arras trenches for the last time. Things were so ‘posh’ and ‘cushy’ here.at posh, adj.
diary 26 Aug. Long Carry (1970) 74: Our boys didn’t relish this job one bit, and all had a slight touch of ‘wind-up.’.at wind-up, n.2
diary 29 May Long Carry (1970) 44: It was realized that some of us present would certainly ‘go west’ (to be vulgar) very shortly.at go west (v.) under west, adj.
diary 12 Aug. Long Carry (1970) 200: I always think of long, woollen ‘combs’.at combs, n.
diary 3 July Long Carry (1970) 190: This period was one of the ‘cushiest’ times we had.at cushy, adj.
diary 12 Feb. Long Carry (1970) 127: We were out for two hours, and arrived back thoroughly ‘fagged’.at fagged (out), adj.
diary 20 Aug. Long Carry (1970) 202: ‘Fatty’ Lewis, who was helping out with stores.at fatty, n.1
diary 9 June Long Carry (1970) 185: Percey had blankets and everything ready, so that I could ‘turn-in’ quickly.at turn in, v.1
diary 10 Sept. Long Carry (1970) 211: In the centre of all this was the farmhouse midden, where all the animals’ muck, straw, and rubbish was deposited.at muck, n.1
diary 23 Mar. in Long Carry (1970) 150: I remember [...] going for a ‘scrounge’ round amongst the other huts in search of anything that might be of use to us.at scrounge, n.
diary 13 Apr. Long Carry (1970) 172: Every evening saw us sit down to a ‘tip top’ feed.at tip-top, adj.
diary 17 July Long Carry (1970) 192: Writing appealing letters to sympathetic females at home or as we termed it ‘doing the lonely soldier touch.’.at touch, n.1
diary 10 Apr. Long Carry (1970) 170: The holder of this job was invariably termed ‘N.C.O. i/c shit wallers’ by his fellows.at wallah, n.
no more results