The following comprises a list of words and phrases of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain during the Great War, which also includes: technicalities, trench slang, expressions in everyday use, nicknames, sobriquets, the titles and origins of British and Commonwealth Regiments, and warfare in general. These words and phrases are contemporary to the war, which is reflected in the style and language used of the time, and have been transcribed from three primary sources (see contents). Feel free to help improve any of the entries in these lists.
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- Gadget
- Gaff
- Galloping Lockharts
- Gangway, make way for a naval officer!
- Garrison sports
- Gas
- Gas alert
- Gas bag
- Gas guard
- Gas patrols
- Gashions
- Gashly
- Gasper
- Gaspirator
- Gassed
- Gassed at Mons
- Gat, A
- Gate, On the
- Gazetted
- Gear
- Geddesburg
- General absolution
- General (rank)
- Geneva Convention
- Geneva Cross
- Gentle Annie
- Gentleman-Cadet
- George
- Get away with it
- Get down to it
- Get it in the neck
- Get off my neck
- Get off with, To
- Get your ears put back
- Ghost of Joan
- GHQ
- Gibby
- Gin Palace
- Gippy
- Gippy bint
- Gippo
- Gippoland
- Girls are on the tow-rope
- Give it best
- Glass house
- Glass house sailors
- Glory hole
- Go in, or go out
- Go off
- Go one better
- Glassis
- G, Q and A
- Go over
- Gobby
- Goffer
- Goffer, I'll draw you off a
- Gold stripe
- Gone dis
- Gong
- Good oil
- Goosed
- Gooseberry
- Goo-wallahs
- Gorblimey
- Gorgeous wrecks
- Got me? Got me, Steve?
- Gotha
- Gott strafe England
- Grabby
- Graft
- Grand Fleet
- Granatloch
- Granny
- Grasshopper
- Gravel crusher
- Greatcoat
- Green Cross Society, The
- Green cross shell
- Green envelope
- Grenade
- Greyback
- Gribble
- Griffin
- Griffin, Straight
- Groundhog day
- Ground stunt
- Ground wallah
- Grouse
- Grow, I've seen 'em
- Grub stake
- Gruel stick
- Guard
- Guardian angel
- Guarding the ace
- Guardsman (rank)
- Gubbins
- Guerilla warfare
- Guild of St. Barnabas, The
- Gulden
- Gull in night clothes
- Gum boots
- Gun-bus
- Gun fire
- Gungoo
- Gunnery Jack
- Gun layer
- Gunner
- Gup
- Gut's Horn
- Gutter crawling
- Gutzer, Come a
- Guyvo
- Guz
- Gwennie
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