Driver Specialist Armoured Engineer Royal Armoured Corps Crewman Army Diver SapperTommy Atkins and other nicknamesFurther information: List of nicknames of British Army regimentsA long established nickname for a British soldier has been Tommy Atkins or Tommy for short. The origins are obscure but most...
David Mwangi Macharia, 68, bears the nickname “British” due to his light skin color. He said his mother had a relationship with a British soldier. He works as a night guard and part-time mason after dropping out of primary school due to being ridiculed and discriminated against. “(Keny...
(1941-1943) Medium Armored Car – Unknown Number in Allied Service The Autoblinda AB41 was an Italian medium reconnaissance armored car used during the whole duration of the North African campaign, mainly deployed by the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) and by the Polizia dell’...
“Of course, I have not pressed the matter before Sunny”, he told Queen Louise at the Charlottenburg, using her nickname in a display of cringe-making overfamiliarity, “But you see, Freddie’s doctors tell me we should find a house away from Berlin. The air is not good for her ...
We were standing inside the schoolhouse one morning when a guard came in and ordered us all to fall out to do some work. Because of the attitude of the guards, we felt that our rescue was near and did not want to comply. Lord, in his very military manner, walked up to the guard ...
In May 1926 the Royal Tank Corps Centre was asked for its opinion, which it submitted in July. One of the requirements was a weight limit of 15.5 tons, which led to the nickname “16-tonners”. Other specifications included that it could transported by rail; a sufficient supply of ...
It is the nickname for Britain. In the eighteenth century, a Scottish writer named John Arbuthnot (约翰·阿布什诺特)who wrote five political satire pamphlets, collected them in 1712 in a book called The History of John Bull 《约翰·布尔的历史》, in which he bitterly and vividly depicted the...
The 57th Regiment of Foot earned their nickname of “the Die Hards” after their participation in the hellish firefight between at Albuera. The commanding officer of the 57th Foot, Inglis, was struck down but refused to be carried to the rear for treatment. “He lay in front of his men...
Chinese still has such compliment: "Your age is so old, the body is so healthy still. "Say English country is used to without similar expression. In their culture, people abstains from say age of the other side is old directly. Cannot interpret becomes: You Are Old But Still Look So ...
约翰牛;英国佬 – the nickname for Britain He is short and fat, with a bowler hat on his head and a pair of boots on his feet. John Bull 约翰牛 出自 16 世纪英国著名作家兼宫廷御医约翰?阿布斯诺特(John Arbuthnot,1667—1735)的政治讽刺作品。 阿布斯诺特在 1712 年写了一本讽刺小说,名叫《...