infantryman

Possessives

life: They speak of immutability, permanence and continuity of belief; everything that the infantryman's life was not.

Converse of object

• become: David, to his slight surprise, had become an infantryman.
• mount: A mounted Infantryman of the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War.
• say: He said only 600 infantrymen and a battery of guns, with some helicopters, had been pledged to the region.
• make: They were important extra rifles, but being capable of firing a rifle does not make an infantryman.

Adjective modifier

• German: Whilst sheltering in the first house, the General shot a German infantryman through the ground floor window.
• British: The basic British infantryman, like his French and German contemporaries, was issued with his uniform, webbing and a rifle with bayonet.
• American: Utah Beach Utah saw the first beach landings of D-Day, by American infantrymen.
• Australian: At one point observed an Australian infantryman " The whole division turned at an angle almost 45 degrees to us.
• heavy: Eg, the land could not sustain the hoplites ( heavy infantrymen ) of ancient Greece.
• French: The French infantryman was issued with either the Lebel or the Berthier rifle.

Preposition: on

road: He was an infantryman on the road to Basra, where heavy Allied bombing killed hundreds of retreating Iraqi soldiers.