firing party

Example Sentences

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Nearby stood a military band, an 82nd Airborne color guard and a firing party, its seven soldiers arrayed in line.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

A firing party of 14 will each fire three rounds in unison, and a bugler will sound the Last Post at the end of the private service.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2021

The Royal Anglian Regiment, into which the Essex was amalgamated, provided bearers and a firing party for his funeral on Thursday.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2019

Loudmouthed, cowardly, Theodore ran away during an attack, was saved from a firing party only by a kindly doctor.

From Time Magazine Archive

In front of him the firing party, of two from each regiment, were then drawn up, half held in reserve, during which there was still a little time for words with his chaplain.

From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.