Sentence examples for as a sapper from inspiring English sources

But Leger was mobilized as a sapper in 1914 and discovered as his "new comrades" miners, workers, "artisans who worked in wood or metal".

During World War I, in which he fought as a sapper (military engineer) at the front lines, Léger acquired a new concern for making art accessible to the working classes.

But as a sapper in the Royal Engineers he lived among working-class men and was relieved to discover the virtues of the proletariat in practice as well as in Marxist theory.

Babcock's brother Manley enlisted after John and served with the engineers as a sapper.

After serving as a sapper in the Royal Engineers, Verity was commissioned in January 1940 as a second lieutenant in the Green Howards, and later promoted to captain.

A member of New Zealand's Territorial Force, he volunteered for service abroad with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) and was posted to the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company as a sapper.

The production is far more moving when it concentrates on the unadorned testimony of those who suffered – there's a very fine performance from Peter Duncan as a simple sapper whose fate is horribly pre-ordained.

The British corporal was a sapper, and his responsibilities included laying and defusing mines and explosives, as well as constructing and destroying bridges, according to Twine, a start-up that crafted the VR experience ahead of next week's Remembrance Sunday in the U.K., which recognizes service members.

Mark Fitzpatrick, a sapper in the Royal Engineers, said one gunman outside Massereene barracks in Antrim Town went in to "finish off" his friend Patrick Azimkar, who died along with fellow sapper Mark Quinsey in the shooting in March 2009.

Thornton stands over a saucepan with his head bowed intently, his hands quick and careful, a sapper with a live one.

Mr Walker was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers and was tasked with helping clear the 50,000 mines left in the island by the Germans.