Dados

Dados: A word coined from the initials of Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services which, at the front, were seen on notices as to where things could be got – horseshoes, for instance, at one place, shirts at another, and so on. A "DADOS" was attached to each Division and served as Universal Provider of every kind of article (upwards of 20,000 were listed), from guns to toothbrushes and tin-tacks.