What is "bandsman"

Usage examples of "bandsman".

Hussars, Dragoons, Lancers, Cuiraisseurs, Chasseurs, Guardsmen, Grenadiers, Voltigeurs, Tirailleurs, Infantry, Artillery, Bandsmen, Engineers, Ambulance men, Drivers, Staff, all of them pulled by the beat of the drum to this place where they became an army.

Some men, seeing a chance to escape the carnage, helped the wounded towards the bandsmen and the surgeons.

Some bandsmen still searched for the wounded, but many would have to wait till the next day for rescue.

Sharpe shouted at two of the bandsmen to carry him back to the surgeons, but Hagman was dead.

The space behind the Battalion was littered with wounded, and the bandsmen were tugging them backwards, away from the heels of the retreating companies, and Sharpe rode there and beckoned to a drummer boy.

When it was darker they would start on men of their own side, slitting the throats of the wounded who resisted them, but for the moment they plundered the French while the Bandsmen cared for the British wounded.

It was, in fact, two of the bandsmen who extricated me by linking their hands under my armpits.

As long as the bandsmen were playing then the British Battalions were not suffering overmuch from the French bombardment.

If Wellesley had not pulled the British line behind the crest the French gunners would be slaughtering the Battalions file by file and the bandsmen would be doing their other job of picking up the wounded and taking them to the rear.

Comes band call when you are headed for the horizon, each bandsman sheds his kit without stopping, his squadmates split it up, and he trots to the column position of the color company and starts blasting.

He did not risk his precious gore expnd0Or take a sporting chance in warpardAs English soldiers do:pardHe marched his bandsmen round the walls expnd0And knocked it down with bugle calls fi360A trick that is tabu.

A cannonball struck into Taplow's bandsmen and Sharpe watched a blood-spattered trumpet fly into the air.

Besides the bandsmen in uniform and the crewmen in canvas and denim work clothes, Pater Frederick could count three unmistakable Orientals, two blacks, two albinos, a midget, a cloaked and hooded person of indeterminate sex, a giant in a leopard skin and another in a skimpy breechclout, one man wearing as white a face as any corpse in the cemetery and another with a face half-blue, one man in fringed buckskins, five young women in decidedly unsolemn near-nudity.