private soldier in English
noun
1
a soldier of the lowest rank.
Even during the 19th century, if an NCO or a private soldier was being court-martialled in the German army a set proportion of the members of the court had to hold the same rank as the accused.
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1. In 1781 he entered the army as a private soldier, and after ten years' service he received his discharge and settled at Valence.