Sentence examples for war officer from inspiring English sources

His hair is neatly parted at the side and a clipped moustache bristles: the effect is of a second world war officer on leave.

Kerr was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, the daughter of a first world war officer, and educated at Northumberland House, in the Bristol suburb of Clifton.

Joseph Losey's The Servant, Bogarde used to say, was 'a piece of cake' compared with his introverted academic in Accident (1967) or his icily correct first world war officer charged with defending a deserter in King And Country (1964).

His father, a first world war officer, had been unable to adjust to civilian employment and passed the time in gambling and small furtive deals, as described by his son in two semi-autobiographical novels, The Old Man and Me (1994) and The Old Man Again (1996).

It doesn't matter that mystery surrounds the authorship of this collection of letters written in the trenches by a British first world war officer to the American nurse to whom, during the brief time they had spent together, he had never declared his love.

The bed is a Civil War officer's folding iron bed.

"I remember my Color War officers — they were these untouchable people.

The two began sharing war stories in a small group they called the Confederate War Officers Club.

Visitors can see the room in Fraunces Tavern, (212) 425-1778, where he honored his Revolutionary War officers in 1783.

Both characters are disgraced Civil War officers who hope to regain the respect of their superiors by leading an ill-advised campaign against a tribal insurrection.

Prior to the Second World War, officers heading into combat buttonholed veterans or gleaned what they could over evening beers at the Officers' Club to fill holes in their training.