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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 8 May 1912, Page 5

Questions are sometimes asked as to the origin of the expression "Tommy" or "Tommy Atkins/ as applied to a soldier m generic form. Mr J. H. Leslie explains in Notes and Queries that its origin dates from the year 1815, when the "Soldier's Account Book" was called into use by a War Office circular letter of August 31, 1815. Sample forms of the said book (for cavalry and infantry) accompanied the circular letter, and in every one of them the name "Thomas Atkins is used as a specimen name. Atkins evidently could not write, as in the several places where his signature occurs it is given as "Thomas Atkins x his mark." This, Mr Leslie adds, surely disproves the idea which has gained belief that "Thomas Atkins" was suggested hj the Duke of Wellington in 1843 as being the name of an especially brave soldier in his own regiment—the 33rd. ENGLISH CHOLERA CURED. "Recently a customer of mine called in to purchase some goods, and was violently attacked with English cholera," writes L. M. Morrin, Otartuhu, New Zealand. "I induced him to take a dose of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, which immediately effected a cure. I might add that on numerous occasions I have used Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhaea Remedy this way, and it has had marvellous effects on tne sufferers/ A gentleman writes—"Two bottles of "NAZOL" cured me. I- had an attack of Influenza^ with Sore Throat, Cough, and Nasal discharge. "NAZOL" gave me- quicker relief fhati1 aaythihgr I ever I tried;"—AdVt. ;