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
"Silly old boy," mused one British private soldier, "but we'll miss him."
From Time Magazine Archive
The poem is by Sir Henry Newbolt, who hymned the public-schoolboy officer to Victorian England in much the same manner as the better known Kipling glorified the 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
