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Old 18-07-22, 04:59 AM
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The "Yar! Etc". is something from my 96 year old Mum's day but I always took it to mean like a big rude gesture to whoever had slighted you....

It's now and then that you realise that you pick up words and phrases that are of another age....

The language is a sort of a left-handed compliment to the person who was brave enough to enter the dugout but the implication being, as I take it, that they would now be poisoned.

Anyway, just a quaint little relic of a bygone age. There are some letters that a Forum member has kindly offered to help translate as German handwriting of the period was very different to what is now taught.
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