Tommies

Incidentally a garrison of British "Tommies" is maintained at the Citadel and this instinctively creates a protective atmosphere.

The Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route 1920

She, Agnes, had become _marraine_ to half a dozen Frenchmen; she considered them more exciting than plain English "Tommies" or American

The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

There is always much camp chaff and yarning amongst "Tommies" -- and their officers, too, for that matter -- at the expense of England's picked battalions.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

Besides, they have sources of inspiration -- have our "Tommies" -- denied to their Teutonic antagonists.

The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 Various

The Tommies are the MIAC favorite again and a consensus top-10 Division III team nationally.

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It was known that radar provided some early warning of raids, but the belief amongst fighter pilots was that anything that brought up the 'Tommies' to fight was to be encouraged.

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"Tommies" stood with mess-tins, three abreast, waiting their turn to be served, for all the world like the crowd at the early door of a London theatre.

With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train Ernest N. Bennett

Nevertheless such work was quite essential to the success of the campaign, for the attitude of the Dutch colonists up-country has been throughout the war an uncertain factor, and if these long lines of communication had been left unprotected it is more than likely that our "Tommies '" supplies would not have arrived at the front with unfailing regularity.

With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train Ernest N. Bennett

"What! You are not going to take all the 'Tommies' along too?" expostulated Rebener.

L.P.M. : the end of the Great War

Naturally the already heavy task of marching was made doubly severe; but the splendid "Tommies" nevertheless plodded steadily over five miles of undulating ground, always steep in parts, and now terribly slippery from slush.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke