Saving Private Atkins

Posted by Tanos on Sun 7 Jun 09, 9:24 AM

Tommy Atkins has been a nickname for the ordinary British private solider since the 18th century. I almost wrote a blog about his erasure from D-Day at the hands of Hollywood last week, but this story (from the Daily Mail unfortunately) has all the figures. And our uninvited Queen not only served in the war (fixing army lorries), she's head of state of Canada too, the third largest D-Day contingent.