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 : cantonment; quarters.


 * monetary value, about one-fifth of a cent. The smallest coin used is the five centime piece.


 * a soldier belonging to a famous French corps.


 * a country mansion, formerly the word meant castle.


 * chief.


 * a kind of brandy.


 * stretcher cases. Literally, men so badly wounded as to have to be carried lying down.


 * jam, or sweets.


 * trench raid.


 * the War Cross, a French decoration.


 * one of our own shells, on its way to the enemy.


 * a brass shell case.


 * Twelve.


 * a flag.


 * whiskey.


 * fragments of shells or grenades; shell splinters.


 * still more wounded!


 * grocery store.


 * transporting wounded to the rear; simply, moving of wounded.


 * gasoline.


 * pointed cloth cap worn by French.


 * the opposite of a marraine. The man with whom the girl corresponds.


 * barbed-wire.