deserter

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"We were totally flummoxed - we didn't know if we should write Missing, Awol, Deserter, or what," he tells me.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2018

From Congress last week a bill was dispatched to the White House to give Deserter Beryl McHam an honorable discharge and put him on the pension rolls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Grischa, alias Deserter Bjuscheff, was promptly sentenced, whereupon he took refuge in confessing his camouflage.

From Time Magazine Archive

In court Deserter Buckley told how he had gone from England to Ireland, bought a passage home to Canada.

From Time Magazine Archive

Deserter, they’d thundered in the middle of the graveyard watch.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir