artilleryman
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In 1918, from the trenches on the Macedonian front, a 31-year-old German artilleryman sent his mother postcards covered in fragments of a philosophical system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Robert spent 10 years in the Royal Horse Artillery after signing up in 2006, working as an artilleryman firing guns and then being promoted to bombardier.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
Their oldest brother, Rudy, was also a Vietnam War veteran, an artilleryman.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
Mr. Peskov’s remarks came after Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner private military company, said on Saturday that the spokesman’s son had served as an artilleryman with his mercenary group for six months.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Kropp asks an artilleryman who has been some time in this neighbourhood: “Is there a canteen anywhere abouts?”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
According to the report, the mercenaries operated as part of the Desert Wolves brigade, serving as drone pilots, artillerymen and instructors.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The artillerymen moved quickly to load their gun, toiling in the heat of a sunny June day.
From Reuters ● Jun. 19, 2023
He quickly rose through the ranks to become an “artificer” — a special rank reserved for expert artillerymen — with Company H of the 1st Artillery Regiment at Fort Independence in Massachusetts.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
“We’re pulling artillerymen out of the fight to learn these howitzers and then we’re putting them back in.”
From Washington Times ● May 20, 2022
On the third afternoon of the siege of Saint-Malo, the shelling lulls, as though all the artillerymen abruptly fell asleep at their guns.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
