From: Nigel Hay (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Sun Mar 07 2004 - 10:18:34 PST
Ok, so where did the nickname Tommy ( indeed who was Tommy Atkins?) come
from?
Now for a fact about the "Breakfast car"
During WW2 young Subalterns would often try and borrow their senior officers
Austin 8 Staff Car - usually if they had a hot date. "get it back in time
for breakfast" they were always told - thus it became known as The Breakfast
car and the nickname spread throughout His Majesties land forces.
Trust me its true.
Nige
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bobby Joe Pendleton" <bjpendleton@charter.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] [MVlist] Military quiz question- Centurion tyre pump
>
> Scurvy became prevalent when sailors began to spend months at sea without
> fresh vegetables, and in such cases it was usually fatal. In 1795, lime
> juice was issued to all British naval vessels on the recommendation of the
> Scottish physician James Lind, who knew that the Dutch had employed citrus
> fruits for several hundred years; scurvy soon began to disappear among
> British seamen. Oranges and lemons, higher in vitamin C content than
limes,
> have supplanted limes as antiscorbutic agents.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Martin" <mung@in-touch.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] [MVlist] Military quiz question- Centurion tyre pump
>
>
> > No offense to anyone...wonder where the "bloody limey" thing came from?
> > Fred Martin
> >
> > Geno wrote:
> > > Yankee..
> > > Did not see an explanation of that one.??????
> > > Was the term given to "New Englanders"....
> > > Like .."a Yankee Clipper".. A New England Ship...New England men were
> called
> > > "Yankees"..Not Yanks.
> > > WW1 I believe is where the Americans in general got the nickname
> Yanks....
> > > Blimy......
> > > Gene
> > >
> > >
> > >
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