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Glossary of the First World War - D

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By Robert Wilde, About.com

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Dud: Either a shell which failed to explode or anything poor/of little use.
Duff: Either pudding or ‘to do something badly’.
Dug-Out: Usually a shelter in a trench, named because they had been 'dug out', varying from a small hole to a large underground room, but also a retired soldier brought back to duty against their wishes.
Dum-Dum: A bullet which splinters/spreads on impact causing worse than normal damage.
Dunsterforce: A force of roughly one thousand elites troops from the British Empire commanded by General Dunsterville deployed briefly in the Ottoman Empire.
Dvajesnik: Serbian lance corporal of the 2nd and 3rd Ban.
DVP: Deutsche Vaterlandspartei; German Fatherland Party.

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