Well, the GREATEST of all poets killed in the The Great War was music-hall artiste Basil Hallam, who wrote and sang “I’m Gilbert the Filbert, Colonel of the Knuts.”
By the way, here’s a great dictionary of WWI slang terms:
Cool link, Eve…I’m bookmarking that to peruse at leisure later on.
The Great War gave us quite a number of useful words. “Crummy,” which meant lousy, as in infested with lice. “Trenchcoat.” “Over the top.”
The British fought in France for so long that the English word “keepsake” has irrevocably become “souvenir.”