English-language names given by WWI troops to places affected by WWI

This is a list of English-language names given by World War I troops to places affected by World War I. Indeed, because there were many tensions during World War 1, some places had to be renamed. Since there was a very anti-German sentiment during World War 1, the military and government would rename towns, like Kitchener, Ontario in Canada, which was named Berlin until WWI. Another reason why English-language names were given by troops to places affected by WW1 is that English-speaking troops often fought in unknown territory and had difficulty pronouncing foreign placenames. Thus, with the advent of strategising and the creation of trench maps, the English-speaking troops (mostly belonging to the British Empire, and Americans starting in 1917) had to find a way to locate places and themselves.

In France and Belgium

• Berloo, Baloo: Bailleul
• Bosheep: Boeschepe
• Caterpillar Valley: a valley near Albert, Somme
• Caterpillar Wood: a wood in Caterpillar Valley
• Dirty Bucket Corner: northwest of Ypres
• Eat Apples: Étaples
• Fitzclarence Farm: east of Ypres
• Funky Villages: Foncquevillers
• Gerty Wears Velvet: Goedesversvelde
• God: Goedesversvelde
• Monty Bong: Montauban-de-Picardie
• Moo-cow: Mouquet Farm, near Pozières
• Mucky Farm: Mouquet Farm, near Pozières
• Ocean Villas: Auchonvillers, Somme
• Plugstreet: Ploegsteert, Belgium
• Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke: from French Bois du Polygone
• Pop: Poperinghe
• White Sheet: Wytschaete
• Wipers: Ypres

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• Army map of an area of the Western Front, showing several such Army renamings

External links

• http://westfrontassoc.mtcdevserver.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-land/britain-allies/383-gaz-tommy.html#sthash.b5FzWmoQ.dpbs