Equally surprisingly, the word does appear in this context in the OED, i.e. The second reference was to a senior officer who failed to perform his duty in a satisfactory manner or an officer of any rank who behaved in a cowardly fashion i.e. The first was the obvious well known one referring to 'shells that failed to explode' but surprisingly, this word does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary in this context. There were two military meanings to the word 'Dud'. Forever Friends: Laurie Denison and Clifford Thompson.FILM REVIEW : All Quiet on the Western Front.Tolkien’s “bitter winnowing” and the War Memorial at St.Addison Barnes Perrott Hadden MC - South Irish Horse in the First World War.Sussex Women at War: Iva Mary Harland and Fanny Amelia Kennaird.A bloody war or a sickly season: The East Yorkshire Regiment’s Regular Officers of August 1914 and the Great War.Hobkirk DSO as GOC 14 Australian Brigade, July 1916 Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J.'The Grave by the Roadside' : Remembering 2/Lt.A Cockney Soldier and the Great War: Corporal William Charles Blumsom MM.The Advance of 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (part of 19th Division) in the Battle of Messines 7 June 1917 by Peter Crook In praise of a Colonel and a Lance Corporal.Budding Bairnsfather, Blighty Magazine and Cheery Tommy Atkins by Robert St.John Smith.Finding Captain Brooke: The oldest Regimental Medical Officer to be killed in the war.
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