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In World War I he rose to a sergeancy in a field ambulance unit in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

For more than a year Private McKinley carried a musket, and on the 15th of April, 1862, was promoted to a sergeancy.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

I'll have you a sergeancy within a month.

From The River's End by Curwood, James Oliver

For this act Barlow complimented Joyce, and then and there promoted him to an orderly sergeancy in another company.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus

“There is no doubt in your mind that I hold a sergeancy in the service, is there, Walker?” he asked.

From Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail by Curwood, James Oliver