Show WORLD WAR YARNS by frank E hagan nicknames ask any former member of the AE ir if he bad any contact with the anzack over there and he will probably answer oh you mean the ana surel good fighters they were and be doean doesn t mean the lana el ther but the australians anzac a a word coined during the world war to designate a member of the australian new zealand army corps in the british service when gen sir cd ward birdwood took command of the corps in egypt in 1914 be was asked to select a telegraphic code addres and by taking the farst letter of each word in the official designation ot the corps the word anzac was the result the following spring these forces made their heroic landing on the gal lapoll peninsula and to commemorate the event general birdwood named the landing place anzac cove originally only those australians and new zea landara who fought at were called anzack but gradually it was adopted as the popular name tor all soldiers from the antipodes the american soldiers however dian didn t follow the popular style in referring to the australians any more than they did in regard to the soldiers of other armies kipling Is response res ble tor the nickname of commies tommies Tom mies for the british soldiers with his tommy atkalns but the A B F knew them better as limays limeys Li meys because of the high content of lime water in their drinking canteens the hairy cheated french soldiers in their horizon blue uniforms may have been to others but to the americans they were Fren chles and though the higher ups frowned upon the use of the word frogs the british propagandists might call the germans auns and the french propagandists might call them boches but the american sol dier who would rather joke than hate referred to their enemy as fritzes or berries Jer ries or or krauts As tor themselves what a squawk of derision went up in the A E F when some sentimentalist tried to tack cammies Sam mies on them they liked yanks better it sounded tougher and did you ever meet an american soldier who admit that the american soldier was the toughest soldier in the world when the doughboys Dough boys prayed ills name was brute Bas and he was the toughest of the hard boiled who lined up with their mess kits when how call sounded at fort oglethorpe brute had a following and the chaplain of his regiment decided it would be a master stroke to persuade him to attend church ces some sunday any sunday so ie went to work on brute their discussions were maintained on a plane far removed from the spirit ual the chaplain s argument which n the end was successful resolved it self into something like this well brute it you were all set 0 o buy something and a man selling a certain brand of that article came around and wanted to demonstrate it at absolutely no cost to you dont you think you would give him the chance the firm justice of that plea con vinced the brute promised to attend services the following sunday it to cost him a thing meanwhile the chaplain suddenly was called away and obtained a neigh boring chaplain to conduct the sun day meeting for him brute dian didn t know about the change in program ills flaming red hair was conspicuous among his followers in a front row of the gathering so conspicuous was he in fact that the visiting choplain to the of much quaking in boots scanned his audience and then indicating brute wanted to know it the brother will lead us in prayer brute was more than equal to the occasion rising to his feet he pronounced solemnly men we shall ahnie five minutes of silent meditation the cinq francs collection men from D company eleventh in fantry sat at church one day in the little commune they occupied for training not far from bar leduc le duc the good cure gave his customary sermon admonishing the parishioners to make les welcome and added the usual warning to mademoiselles moi selles to beware lest they consider the love making of their guests too seriously then the good care un loosened his wrath on certain merchants of the town who were overcharging over charging the doughboys dough boys in purchases of goods it had been called to his attention that frequently a price five throes normal was being received cinq francs shout ed the good man repeatedly de mandez cinq francs luand avez darolt a un franc seu lement the tirade continued to men on five francs impressed itself upon the americans despite their uncertain knowledge of the french language ahen the cure began his collection khaki pockets were dug into and soon a mountain heap of alve franc notes from the infantrymen filled leven hia cassock to overflowing ISSI newspaper Newe paper union w |