GLOSSARY
Reading edition
[The meaning of the words as given in this Glossary is that which holds in the army at the front and sometimes conflicts with the meaning as given in the dictionary.]
Abri dug-out
Ambulancier ambulance driver
Argot slang
Arrivée an enemy shell
Assis a wounded man able to sit up
Blessé wounded man
Bonne camaraderie good-fellowship
Bonne chance good luck
Boyaux communication trench
Brancardier stretcher-bearer
Briquet pocket lighter
Camion truck
Camionnette small truck
Chef first lieutenant
Conducteur ambulance driver
Contre-avion anti-aircraft gun
Couché a wounded man lying down
Croix de guerre war cross
Départ a shell fired towards the enemy
Dud a shell which does not explode
Éclat shell fragment
En Panne breakdown
En Permission on furlough
En Repos on a rest
Estaminet café
Major army surgeon
Malade sick man
Maréchal des logis French petty officer
Mauvais temps rainy season
Médaille militaire military medal
Minniewerfer German trench mortar
Mort Homme Dead Man’s Hill
Musette haversack
Peloton section
Permission furlough
Permissionnaire man on furlough
Pinard wine
Pionnier a branch of the Engineers
Poste de Secours front dressing station for wounded
Ravitaillement provisioning
Réformé soldier discharged on account of wounds
Roll to drive
Rôti shell which does not explode
Saucisse observation balloon
Soixante-quinze 75 mm. shell
Sous-chef second lieutenant
Straf to shell (literally, to curse)
Tir de barrage barrage fire
Torpille trench mortar shell
Verboten forbidden
Ville haute upper city
Transcriber’s Notes: Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. Typographical errors were silently corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.