"Alleyman" meaning in English

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          "ref": "a.1918, ‘I Want to Go Home’ (song)",
          "text": "Take me over the sea, where the Alleyman can't get at me. Oh my, I don't want to die, I want to go home."
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          "ref": "1941, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 250, page 220:",
          "text": "In the trenches the men of both races shared their cigarettes and rum rations, and exchanged the most impossible yarns of what they had done, or would do, to the 'Alleyman!'",
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          "ref": "1954, Henry Williamson, How Dear is Life, page 239:",
          "text": "\"Why don't the naval guns fire back?\"\n\"They only fire when the Alleyman attacks, mate.\"",
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        "A German, especially during the First World War."
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