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On an example of the pay book of soldiers at the time the name used was Tommy Atkins, other details such as the army number were equally fictitious. The name stuck. There is a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling that uses the name Tommy to refer to soldiers
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThey were named Tommys because during the 1st World War the soldiers paybooks used the kind of generic name Thomas Atkins as an example of how the forms should be filled out. Although the use of this name is has been recorded earlier than the war - examples of its use and in poems are around the very late 19th century.
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∙ 13y agoI think it is derived from the cartoon Tom & Jerry. The British called the Germans "Gerries" or "Jerry's" so in turn the British were called Toms or Tommies
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