private soldier
Example Sentences
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One of the officers revealed that although Yurii ranks as a simple private soldier, he basically runs this unit.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023
Against the background of military and social collapse in 1870-1 France, we follow the intertwined destinies of the peasant corporal Jean Macquart and the bourgeois lawyer and private soldier Maurice Levasseur.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011
Sixty years of age, Tsao-Kun started life as a private soldier, but displayed such qualities of leadership that he attracted the attention of an officer who sent him to a military school.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1915, when he was 14, before he went to Eton, Leopold demanded and for six months was allowed to serve in his father's trenches as a private soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the lowliest private soldier had decided that the war would not be fought in the trenches again.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
