artilleryman
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William Miller, an English artilleryman, joined the Peruvian fight against imperial Spain and became a pivotal figure in Peru’s bid for independence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
A crackling sound on the radio sends instructions to artillerymen waiting inside a US-made M-109 Paladin howitzer.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
The artillerymen moved quickly to load their gun, toiling in the heat of a sunny June day.
From Reuters ● Jun. 19, 2023
The feminine presence on the predominantly male work sites is Saint Barbara, the patron saint of tunnelers, miners, artillerymen and others who work with explosives.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2018
If, that is, the artillerymen hear the safe word.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2017
On the third afternoon of the siege of Saint-Malo, the shelling lulls, as though all the artillerymen abruptly fell asleep at their guns.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
