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Not supposed to be doing this site at work.   Plotte has several meanings.  Not used in France.  The French very subtle, saying, “La chatte noire”

…….my Grandad in WW1 joined the Royal Army Medical Corps – every day they marched into  town until they were sent to France…..his regiment wrote a book after, and my Grandad wrote one chapter. “Every day an old woman came out on her balcony and showed us her old black cat!”  Nobody got it, till me!

He also wrote, “We marched up to the line and were given a meal. There were body parts everywhere.  Nobody seemed concerned.  We, young chaps could not eat a thing. It was THEN we realised what we had go ourselves into.”    Later, he was one of the first into Damascus and climbed onto a roof to get a Turkish flag.  snipers shot at him, but he got the flag which we still have.

My other Grandad was captured and forced to crawl into no man’s land to bring back a wounded German.  He did, “There’s more out there. I’ ll go and get them if you like.”   He did.  The German Commander was so impressed he wrote a letter asking for good treatment in the PW camp.  Had the letter for years but now gone.