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

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

Wagner’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said Dmitry Peskov had approached him and asked him to take his son on as an artilleryman.

From Reuters • Apr. 23, 2023

“On arriving at our new positions in the Argonne Forest, we found out that...the fighting at this point must have been terrific,” recalled Private McGuire, an American artilleryman.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman