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

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