a soldier who digs trenches
(in the British Army) a private of the Royal Engineers
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As for the vast stretches of minefields still lying in front of Ukraine's counter-attack - Dill, the sapper squad commander near Bakhmut, was quietly confident.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2023
He was a sapper in the Royal Engineers, attached to the Parachute Regiment for a few days, with the specific job of clearing barricades.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2018
A sapper contracted a fever and realized that her wisdom teeth were coming in.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2017
The newspaper Novoya Gazeta published an interview with the mother of 20-year-old sapper Vadim Tumanov, alongside a photograph of an official notice informing the local military commissar about his death.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2014
He promised that we would soon have a satire acted upon the rebels, writ by the notorious wit Major-General Burgoyne, with curtain-tunes and airs by this same excellent sapper to please the crowd.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Sapper Connor Morrison, 20, of 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment stationed in Woodbridge, Suffolk, collapsed during a group run on 21 July 2022.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
"Had effective measures been applied immediately, Sapper Morrison may have survived," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
Erlick was 14 and Sapper 12 when Leifer arrived at the school from Israel in 2000 first as a head of religion.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
“It hurts to remember. It hurts more than I’ll ever be able to describe,” Sapper said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
"Sapper" has a good picture of the fighting man, but a very bad one of the Front.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
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