Blood money
Blood money: Compensation for wounds. The term, at the time of Great War, was common for both Army and Navy. Originally, a very old navy term dating back to the 18th Century. Also associated with an indefinite sum, which the French were popularly supposed to be presenting at the end of the war to every British soldier who had served in France.[1]
References / notes
- ↑ Edward Fraser and John Gibbons (1925). Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Routledge, London p.27.
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