Blighty

[citation needed] Blighty is commonly used as a term of endearment by the expatriate British community or those on holiday to refer to home.

During the First World War, "Dear Old Blighty" was a common sentimental reference, suggesting a longing for home by soldiers in the trenches.

[10] In his First World War autobiography Good-Bye to All That (1929), the writer Robert Graves attributes the term Blitey to the Hindustani word for 'home'.

The music hall artiste Vesta Tilley had a hit in 1916 with the song "I'm Glad I've Got a Bit of a Blighty One" (1916), in which she played a soldier delighted to have been wounded and in hospital.

[14] Folksinger Ian Robb's album Rose and Crown features a topical parody of the traditional song "Maggie May", about the Falklands War.

UKTV operated a digital television channel called Blighty that opened in February 2009 and closed on 5 July 2013.

A World War I example of trench art : a shell case engraved with a picture of two wounded Tommies nearing the White Cliffs of Dover with the inscription "Blighty!"
British soldiers reading copies of Blighty magazine outside their dugout in France, December 1939.