Valenciennes city in northern France, near the Belgian border, which the Germans occupied during World War I.
Verey light a flare gun.
waggle-top a mortar shell that wobbles like a Roman candle as it spins to earth.
what we ought to annex that is, lands that Germany felt it had a right to claim.
white-horses whitecaps.
whortleberries blue or blackish edible berries with a powdery bloom.
"William Tell" a dramatic historical poem written by Johann Schiller in 1804, which emphasizes the themes of freedom and patriotism. In Swiss legend, William Tell was a hero in the fight for independence from Austria, forced, on pain of death, to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
wireless-men radio operators.
wiring fatigue the tedious task of laying barbed wire to slow an enemy assault.
