Word: tyndarius
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...France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral Sims. British soldiers sang it when they were lined up on deck waiting to be taken off the torpedoed troop ship Tyndarius. They sang it after the Armistice when they marched across the bridge into Cologne. In London the massed bands of the Guards play it even now when Britain's notables gather on the Mall to do honor to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
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