

Blighty and Beyond: Why a WW1 blog?
My leap into the blog sphere began with a classic novel and a TV show—Jane Austen's iconic Pride & Prejudice, set in the early 19th...
Blight·y
blīdē/ noun BRITISH
an informal and typically affectionate term for Britain
or England, chiefly as used by soldiers of WW1 and WW2
military slang: a wound suffered by a soldier in WW1 that was sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain.