artilleryman

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In 1918, from the trenches on the Macedonian front, a 31-year-old German artilleryman sent his mother postcards covered in fragments of a philosophical system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 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

Before he signed a military contract in 2019, the artilleryman was a builder, who renovated apartments.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2022

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