Crossword-Solution: INFANTRYMAN 11 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

But they found it was very easy to find many men, never women, who would follow orders and perform the tasks of an underground infantryman.

And then I remembered that all this glory had only one use in war and that was to help the muddy British infantryman to down his Hun opponent.

Instead, he walked with the bent-kneed swing of the French infantryman, that tireless but awkward marching step which renders the French Army so mobile.

That is a remark by the way; our interest here is to note that modern war emerges upon history as the sixteenth century unfolds, as an affair in which the essential factor is the drilled and trained infantryman.

And were there not the very gravest doubts about General Smuts in British military circles because he had “had no military training”? A Canadian expressed the new view very neatly on being asked, in consequence of a deficient salute, whether he wanted to be a soldier, by saying, “Not I! I want to be a fighter!” The professional officer of the old dispensation was a man specialised in relation to one of the established “arms.” He was an infantryman, a cavalryman, a gunner or an engineer.