Noun:

साप,

sapper's Usage Examples:

The private is called a gunner in the artillery and anti-aircraft, a rifleman in the infantry, a trooper in the armoured corps, a sapper in the engineers, a signalman in the signals corps, and a scout in the intelligence corps.

First World WarIn 1916, as a sapper officer with direct experience of the first British use of tanks on the Somme, Martel was put in charge of recreating a wide replica of the British and German trench systems, complete with no man's land, at Elveden, Norfolk, as part of a tank training ground.

sappers during the march to Cawnpore and to the Alambagh, reverting to the adjutancy in March 1858, when he joined the force under Sir James Outram for the.

During this period the sappers were involved in bridgebuilding and in revetting the trenches dug into shingly ground.

A sapper, also called pioneer or combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications.

By using the sap, the besiegers could move closer to the walls of a fortress, without exposing the sappers.

Organizacja Wojskowa (Polish Military Organization) and received the order to invigilate sappers’ barracks in the district of Wilda and the railway storehouses.

earth- or sand-filled gabions are used to protect sappers, infantry, and artillerymen from enemy fire.

It resisted a lengthy cannonade by the attacking army; finally, sappers tunneled into the basalt core.

The original Erzsébet Bridge, along with many other bridges all over the country, was blown up at the end of World War II by retreating Wehrmacht sappers.

They were in their turn countermined by Dutch sappers.

s and sappers of the Bengal Sappers and six of the Bombay Sappers were awarded.

bridges, working as sappers and doing the job of armorers, especially after conscription of devshirme armorers stopped.

Synonyms:

military engineer, army engineer,