a soldier who digs trenches
(in the British Army) a private of the Royal Engineers
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"Of course, it slows down the movement of troops," said the commander of a nine-man sapper squad with the call sign Dill.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2023
George Batts, who lived in Barming, near Maidstone, Kent, was an 18-year-old sapper when he landed in France on Gold Beach in June 1944.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2022
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
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