Sentence examples for a common soldier from inspiring English sources

He later described his experiences through the eyes of a common soldier in his acclaimed novel The Beardless Warriors (1960).

He was 17 when he signed up as a common soldier to fight the French in 1945.

For this latter action, he was expelled from the academy and subsequently sent to the Galician front as a common soldier during World War I.

Born of impoverished nobility, Derzhavin joined the army as a common soldier in 1762 and was made an officer in 1772.

Minh Mang deprived him of his titles and demoted him to fight as a common soldier in the region of Quang Nam, in central Vietnam.

Despite promotion to a ministerial position, he is said to have remained on the salary of a common soldier and refused gifts offered to himself or his family.

Utterly anomalous (and unknown) in its time, the play is about a tormented common soldier, a quintessential nobody who ends up killing his common-law wife.

Col. David Hackworth, a champion of the common soldier died of cancer at age 74.

But it was also a period of creative excitement: of, as Philip Larkin famously noted, the Beatles' first LP; of Joan Littlewood's Oh! What A Lovely War, which saw the 1914-18 confromtherom the perspective of the common soldier; of a new view of the cold war reflected in Le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

For a man concerned with the welfare of the common soldier, Esmarch took a harsh attitude toward students, notoriously granting no grade higher than a B in his academic career [ 5].

"We wanted to interpret the camps as a way to highlight their relationship to the battlefields," Dr. Reeves said, "but also to bring in a story, related to the common soldier's experience".