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: BoeschepeThe Daily Telegraph, Saturday 27 April 1918, reprinted in page 32, The Daily Telegraph, Friday 27 April 2018 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

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

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