| The time is ripe over here for a revival of the song the British Tommies liked to sing on the way to the trenches. |
| She does this not with hackneyed images of shell-shocked Tommies, but principally through simple visual metaphor. |
| We do get on well because the Tommies did liberate Crete, but what they did immediately afterwards was not made public. |
| But they did make it, and met up with some Tommies, who pointed out which way to go. |
| British tommies, pommy toffs, upper class and lower, all are convincingly created by this excellent reader. |
| France at that time, he says, was full of former Tommies on the run, many of whom had taken up with local girls. |
