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Tommy Atkins Tales From the Mews Club Talk
A speaker from the Mews Club at the Presbyterian church recounts experiences as a British private soldier. He explains the origin of the nickname Tommy Atkins from an enlistment pocket ledger and recalls life from furlough to voyage, the Rock of Gibraltar, Valetta, Suez, Bombay, and India. He shares anecdotes of discipline, travel, encounters with locals, and customs including a native inspector’s mercy meal and scenes of landmark spectacles like the Juggernaut car and tiger feast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Healey
Mews Club
The
Presbyterian Church
Brother Townsend
Tommy Atkins
Thomas Atkins
Tommy
Thomas
Portsmouth
India
eBsity
Valetta
Malta
Suez Canal
Ension
Ino
Aden
Dallands
Dave
Bombay
Terra
Coffe
John Till