What is "tommy atkins"

Tommy Atkins \Tom"my At"kins\, prop. n. Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; -- said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

Tommy Atkins (often just Tommy) is slang for a common soldier in the British Army. It was certainly well established during the nineteenth century, but is particularly associated with World War I. It can be used as a term of reference, or as a form of address. German soldiers would call out to "Tommy" across no man's land if they wished to speak to a British soldier. French and Commonwealth troops would also call British soldiers "Tommies". In more recent times, the term Tommy Atkins has been used less frequently, although the name "Tom" is occasionally still heard, especially with regard to paratroopers.

Tommy Atkins is a mango cultivar. Although generally not considered to be the best in terms of sweetness and flavor, it is valued for its very long shelf life and tolerance of handling and transportation with little or no bruising or degradation.

This means it is the main mango sold in regions where mangoes have to be imported, comprising about 80% of mangoes sold in the United Kingdom and United States, apart from growing regions in California, Hawaii, Florida and Jamaica. However, in France it is sold at a discount, while the main imported cultivar is Kent, considered less fibrous and tastier.

Francis Montgomery "Tommy" Atkins (December 9, 1887 – May 7, 1956) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1909 and 1910. According to the 1911 Reach Guide, Atkins had a key pitch called the "fingernail fling".

Tommy Atkins is a 1928 British silent drama film, directed by Norman Walker and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Henry Victor and Walter Byron. It is based on the eponymous play by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck. It features a romantic drama against the backdrop of the British intervention in The Sudan in the 1880s.

Tommy Atkins is a 1915 British silent war film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Blanche Forsythe, Jack Tessier and Roy Travers. It is based on an 1895 play of the same title by Ben Landeck and Arthur Shirley.

Tommy Atkins was an American director of the silent and early sound film eras. Born on July 18, 1887 in Springfield, Massachusetts, he would make his entrance into the film industry as the assistant director to Ralph Ince on the 1920 silent film, Out of the Snows. It would be another eight years before he would make another film, again as assistant director, this time for FBO Pictures, on another silent film, Crooks Can't Win. He'd work as the assistant director on another sixteen films between 1928 and 1934, the most notable of which would be 1933's Morning Glory, directed by Lowell Sherman and starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. In 1934 he would be given the chance to helm his first picture, The Silver Streak, which was one of the top money-makers for RKO Pictures that year. He would only direct two more films, the second of which, Hi, Gaucho!, he would also write the story for.

After Hi, Gaucho!, Atkins appears to have left the film industry for the most part, although he did return in 1940 as an associate producer on the Academy Award-nominated docudrama, The Fight For Life, which was directed by Pare Lorentz, who also produced the film for the United States Film Service. Atkins died on June 18, 1968 in Los Angeles, California.