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 : coin worth about twenty cents. The standard of French money.


 * cheese.


 * a fuse, usually a time fuse.


 * sappers and miners—engineers.

G.B.D.: divisional stretcher company.


 * seriously wounded men.


 * war.


 * small appetizer, sardines, pickles, etc., served at the beginning of a meal.

H.O.E.: evacuation hospital.


 * a measure of weight, a trifle over two pounds.


 * a distance, about three fifths of a mile.


 * abbreviation used for either.


 * sick.


 * literally, a god-mother; used of a girl who sends letters and packages to some man at the front.


 * the French National anthem.


 * medical officer in charge of the brancardiers.


 * thank you.


 * Paris subway.


 * men from the south of France.


 * machine-gun.


 * Sir, or Mr.


 * a shell.


 * the light opera; a theater in Paris.


 * field orders to move, for troops or individuals.