The Times yesterday printed a set of verses after the style of "The Barrack Room Ballads," and supposed to be from "Tommy Atkins to Kipling on His Illness." View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Thomas Atkins, oldest soldier of modern times, has been serving His or Her Britannic Majesty since post-Waterloo clays. Until the late great Rudyard Kipling showed what a dear fellow Tommy really ...

The name Tommy Atkins, used to describe the typical British soldier, probably originated in a War Office publication of 1815 ...' Rudyard Kipling was educated in England, but spent his early ...

In it, Kipling uses common language for the common grunt in uniform, a composite character all the English knew as Tommy Atkins. Later that night, the old warrior emailed me the poem. He couldn't ...