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The Great War

The Tommy's Tongue

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V - Vic

VAD:
Voluntary Aid Detachment.
Vamoose:
To go quickly. From Spanish vamos, let us go.
Velvet:
Good. To be on velvet was to be in exceptionally fortunate and comfortable circumstances.
Vermorel Sprayer:
An agricultural spraying tool, used in the trenches to spray dispersal chemicals onto low-lying pockets of gas.
Very:
A flare or colored light fired from a Very pistol for signalling at night. After the inventor, Edward W. Very (1852-1910), a U.S. naval ordnance officer.
Vin Blanc Anglais:
Whisky. From French, literally English white wine.