MAKE A MEME View Large Image Tommy enjoys possession of newly captured Hun trench.jpg en British soldiers at the old German Front Line during World War I In front of a mound and standing in a network of trenches are groups of soldiers mostly smiling and laughing They ...
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Keywords: Tommy enjoys possession of newly captured Hun trench.jpg en British soldiers at the old German Front Line during World War I In front of a mound and standing in a network of trenches are groups of soldiers mostly smiling and laughing They are all wearing large ponchos and the ground is very muddy One soldier is pointing to a sign which says the 'old hun line' Tommy' is 'Tommy Atkins' a fictional hero figure representing the average British soldier The slang British term used here for German 'Hun' gained popular usage after Kaiser Wilhelm II urged his troops to 'behave like Huns' to win the war 1918 https //www flickr com/photos/nlscotland/3011972235/ National Library of Scotland cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard 1918 in France Battle of the Somme World War I in 1918 Tommy Atkins
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