Tommy Atkins
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Tom´my At´kins

prop. n.

Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; - said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

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Nicknames private tommy			A tale of turmoil and tragedy but also a most readable tribute to the British Tommy. Book SHELF by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) During my two weeks in Great Britain, the nation said farewell to the last surviving British Tommy from World War I. WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) But some of my impotent anger is directed too at those who decided they had a God-given right (the ACHAPTER of history was closed last Thursday when Harry Patch, the last surviving British Tommy to fight in the trenches of the Great War, was laid to rest in Wells, Somerset. Will we learn from Harry Patch? by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			British monetary unit British Museum British National Party British North America British Parliament British people British pound British pound sterling British Rail British seas British shilling British shorthair British Solomon Islands British Somaliland British Standard brass thread British Standard fine thread British Standard pipe thread British Standard Time British Standard Whitworth thread British Standards Institution British Summer Time British system British Technology Group British thermal unit British Togoland British Tommy British Union of Fascists British Virgin Islands British warm British West Africa British West Indies British White Britisher Britishism Britneyfication Briton Britpack Britpop Brits britt Brittanic Brittany Brittany spaniel Britten brittle brittle bladder fern brittle bone disease brittle bush brittle fern brittle maidenhair brittle maidenhair fern			British thermal unit British thermal unit British thermal unit British thermal unit British thermal unit British thermal unit (Btu) British thermal unit (Btu) British thermal unit (Btu) British thermal unit (Btu) British Thermal Unit per Cubic Feet British Thermal Unit per Hour British Thermal Units British Thermal Units British Thermal Units British Thermal Units British Thermal Units per Hour British Thompson-Houston British Thoracic and Tuberculosis Association British Thoracic Oncology Group British Thoracic Society British Thought Field Therapy Association British threepence coin British Thyroid Association British Tinnitus Association British Toggenburg Society British Togoland British Togoland British Toilet Association British Tomato Growers' Association British Tommies British Tommy British Touring Car Championship British Touring Car Club British Tourism Board British Tourism Survey British Tourism Survey - Yearly British Tourist Authority British Tourist Board British Toxicology Society British Toy and Hobby Association British Tractor Pulling Association British Trade and Commerce Bank British Trade and Cultural Office British trade dollar British Trade Union British Trade Union Congress BTUC British Traditional Karate Association British Traditional Karate Federation British Traditional Molecatchers Register British Traditional Wicca British Traditional Witchcraft British Training and Recruitment Consultancy British Transplantation Society British Transport Advertising British Transport Commission

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Tommy Atkins (redirected from British Tommy)

Tommy Atkins
(redirected from British Tommy)