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Authors names: Various (16) Dawson, Coningsby (Coningsby William), 1883-1959 (2) Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937 (2)

Subject tags: trenches (10) punch (8) trench (8) war (7) more...

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Synonyms: Blighty

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  1.  A Yankee in the Trenches / Holmes, R. Derby
    ON THE SOMME AGAIN XIV THE LAST TIME OVER THE TOP XV BITS OF BLIGHTY XVI SUGGESTIONS FOR "SAMMY ... until I had been wounded and sent to Blighty, which is trench slang for England. While recuperating in one of the pleasant  details...
  2.  The Glory of the Trenches / Dawson, Coningsby (Coningsby William), 1883-1959
    IN HOSPITAL. (Poem) THE ROAD TO BLIGHTY THE LADS AWAY. (Poem) THE GROWING OF THE VISION THE GLORY ... The dear familiar Death. I THE ROAD TO BLIGHTY I am in hospital in London, lying between clean white  details...
  3.  Rhymes of a Red Cross Man / Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874-1958
    as clabber and the corby picks the brains of them, And some are back in Blighty, and a-wishing they had died ... reached out and shot . . . THE PRUSSIAN MAJOR DEAD! Going Home I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty -- ain  details...
  4.  Over the Top / Empey, Arthur Guy, 1883-1963
    . CHAPTER II BLIGHTY TO REST BILLETS The next morning, the Captain sent for me and informed me: "Empey ... rifle patterned after the Daniel Boone period, and you have an idea of a British soldier in Blighty  details...
  5.  Women and War Work / Fraser, Helen
    . ORGANIZATION AND ITS PITFALLS 3. HOSPITALS--RED CROSS--V.A.D. 4. BRINGING BLIGHTY TO THE SOLDIERS ... . "BRINGING 'BLIGHTY' TO THE SOLDIER" "It's a long, long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there  details...
  6.  Into the Jaws of Death / O'Brien, Jack
    , and soon we caught our first glimpse of the shores of England (or "Blighty," as the soldiers call it ... -belts had to be put on, and the boat started immediately. We watched the lights of "Old Blighty" flicker and fade  details...
  7.  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 / Various
    . * * * * * [Illustration: _Tommy (back from Blighty)_. "YUS, I GRANT YER A BIT O' LEAVE'S ALL RIGHT. BUT IT'S AWFUL ... me a drink, What poets call "the cooling draft," And seeing 'im I done a think: "_Blighty  details...
  8.  Poems / Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918
    ." A low voice said, "It's Blighty, p'raps, he sees; his pluck's all gone, Dreaming of all the valiant ... God Almighty (Though next time please I'll thank 'im for a blighty), But poor young Jim, 'e's livin  details...
  9.  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 / Various
    .F.S. * * * * * GOIN' BACK. I'm goin' back to Blighty and a free-an' easy life, But I grant it ain't the Blighty ... with their gals; My little bit o' Blighty is the 'ighway, With the sweet gorse smellin' in the sun  details...
  10.  At Ypres with Best-Dunkley / Floyd, Thomas Hope
    Fusiliers, and I had received orders to return to "Blighty" in order to proceed to an officer cadet ... , when any ordinary individual in "Blighty" would be relaxing from the labours of the day in cricket or in tennis  details...

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