Comments on: Somewhere near Vaudesson, 2/11/1918 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/somewhere-near-vaudesson-2111918/ Letters Home from a Yankee Doughboy 1916-1919 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: worldwar1letters http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/somewhere-near-vaudesson-2111918/#comment-190 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:38:02 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=3307#comment-190 “The Bosh” was a colloquial spelling for “Boche” which was the French word for “rat”, given to the Germans because they had begun to live like rats underground due to trench warfare. Sam also spells it as “Boshe.”

]]> By: Ward http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/somewhere-near-vaudesson-2111918/#comment-189 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:40:51 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=3307#comment-189 What did “the Bosh” refer to?

]]> By: Myscha Aiken http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/somewhere-near-vaudesson-2111918/#comment-186 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:52:59 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=3307#comment-186 Good Afternoon Sergeant.

I’ve watched your occasional cheery comments on Pvt.Lamin’s blog, so thought I’d toddle over and say Howdy.

I don’t know if you’ve seen these pictures in color, taken mostly by a German chap, and a Frenchman.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-37025-1.html

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