sergeant-majors

I was particularly amazed that in America there were black police captains, black sergeant-majors, lawyers and doctors.

Shaun Gatter: Campaign Journal: Canvassing for Mandela and Obama in Bristol, PA 2008

''At one stage, all five of his Mercer's company sergeant-majors were black.

This week I have been mostly reading... Rachel 2007

Most of those set to attend Saturday's gathering are sergeant-majors, sergeants, corporals and riflemen, because

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

This was the moment when, in the absence of officers on reconnaissance, company and squadron sergeant-majors along with the warrant officers and sergeants, came into their own, setting the example of meticulous preparation once the orders were known.

First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984

Their new tasks were those of 'sergeant-majors' of the company and they were to receive substantial wage increases of 4s. a day.

7. BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE 1980

Their new tasks were those of 'sergeant-majors' of the company and they were to receive substantial wage increases of 4s. a day.

8 STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS 1980

In the attack the sergeant-majors of both A and B Companies were hit.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

We pitched tents and tethered our horses in the wood, and before nightfall I walked into the village to look at the spot beneath the church tower where I had halted my fifty-three men, and to view again the barn in which I had roused the most helpful of the two sergeant-majors.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

Did I not rouse a frowning town major and two amazed sergeant-majors before 5 A.M. and demand that they should do something in the matter?

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

It also happens that the house adjoining mine is tenanted by the colonel, whence it results that from morn to eve, there is a constant coming and going of sergeant-majors, lieutenants and captains, who rival one another in casting fascinating glances upon this corner of Mahomet's paradise.

French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard