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
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
Conscripted into the German army with two brothers, he was injured as an artilleryman at Verdun; he subsequently embraced pacifism and took succor in music.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Then all becomes quiet in the big room—only the candles flickering from the necks of a couple of bottles and the artilleryman spitting every now and then.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
He quickly rose through the ranks to become an “artificer” — a special rank reserved for expert artillerymen — with Company H of the 1st Artillery Regiment at Fort Independence in Massachusetts.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
“We’re pulling artillerymen out of the fight to learn these howitzers and then we’re putting them back in.”
From Washington Times ● May 20, 2022
Forced to abandon their gunboats, the sailors became artillerymen manning the defenses on land at Bladensburg.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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