private soldier
Example Sentences
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He was convicted of mercenaryism, which means taking part in a military conflict for material reward as a so-called "private soldier".
From BBC • May 18, 2026
One of the officers revealed that although Yurii ranks as a simple private soldier, he basically runs this unit.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023
Against the background of military and social collapse in 1870-1 France, we follow the intertwined destinies of the peasant corporal Jean Macquart and the bourgeois lawyer and private soldier Maurice Levasseur.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011
From the purely physical standpoint the Pacific campaigns have been infinitely worse for the private soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the lowliest private soldier had decided that the war would not be fought in the trenches again.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
