under-sergeant

plural under-sergeants

1. governmentA non-commissioned officer army rank immediately below a sergeant; corporal.

   One Saudi soldier, an under-sergeant, was killed in Bahrain on Tuesday, a Saudi official said.

   2011 March 16, “Bahrain fires at protesters; 2 dead, 150 injured”, in CNN

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   Because of his cadet experience he was immediately made an under-sergeant, and was responsible for the discipline of the thirty or so students on the course, and was answerable to the Commanding Officer.

   1994, Fiona Darcy, “SAM CALDER OBE, DFC”, in Journal of Northern Territory History, number 5

   The three most important minor characters are Ensign von Krixlow, who serves in the same battalion, and the poet Weiler and under-sergeant Frôbel, who serve in the same platoon as Gadsky.

   2010, K Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, “Germany's Lessons From the Lost "Great War": Pacifist Andreas Latzko and Bellicist Walter Flex”, in Peace Research, volume 42, numbers 1-2