returned soldier

British  

noun

1. Also: returned man.  a soldier who has served abroad

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Example Sentences

Although he lives a drab suburban life, one built on and paid for by violence, Kill List’s returned soldier protagonist has become an essentially murderous man.

From The Guardian

After the war she married a returned soldier who had stepped on a landmine and lost part of his foot but turned up at a dance anyway on two crutches.

From The Guardian

Its purpose, seemingly, was to let the audience peer through the nightmarish glasses of a returned soldier suffering from the nightmares and flashbacks of post-traumatic stress syndrome.

From New York Times

We speak of the returned soldier, whose life turned at the same age mine did, and I fear for him a future defined by something bad and not of his doing.

From Slate

Mr. and Mrs. Keith returned to their home by a train that left only a few minutes later, and Ethel, after a short but very joyful interview with her returned soldier cousins, went back to her work at the store.

From Project Gutenberg