The Great War 1914 - 18
The following words were first used in the
trenches of WW1, and are still used today!
Over the Top, Trench Coat, Ace, Buddy,
Pushing up the Daisies, Red Tape,
Zoom, Sniper,
Washout,
Cootie, Tune Up,
In the Pink, Zero Hour,
Zoom, Busted ,
Guy
Ticked Off, Put a
Sock in it,
Hit the Deck, Washout,
Rookie, Coffin nail, Seconds,
Fed Up,
Rise & Shine,
Pipe down, Mess up,
Get knocked off,
Hike,
Gadget,
Kick the Bucket, Rank &
File, Chow Down,
Bull, Cushy,
Scrounge,
Shot(inoculation),
Humdinger, Missed the Bus, Basket Case
First industrialised conflict.
First use of chlorine & mustard gas.
First use of the flame thrower.
First tank battle.
First use of mass airplanes.
First use of x-ray in the military.
First use of a blood bank.
First use of guide dogs by blinded soldiers.
First four-star general, General John J. Pershing
First use of trillion in estimating war costs.
First commissioning of war art for propaganda.
First use of the IQ Test given to Doughboys of 1917.
First U.S. president to visit a European country
while in office was Woodrow Wilson on 12/04/18.
5,000,000 (5 million) artillery shells were fired in 3 day period.
The Last Post is still sounded each night at 6 p.m. at the Menin Gate in
Ypres, Belgium to honour the War Dead. (Suspended only during the
occupation by Germany during the Second World War)
During the course
There were 70,000,000 (70 million) men and women in uniform of that
number one-half were either killed, wounded or became prisoners of war.
During the summer and fall of 1914, France lost as many men on the
battlefield as the U.S.Army would lose in all of the 20th century!
