Vincigliata A military batman was a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. In the Royal Navy they were called stewards. The position was generally phased out after the war. There were a number of escape plans from the castle. O'Connor's attempt over the wall had failed, with the inevitable punishment of a month's solitary confinement. Then in mid-September 1942 a tunnel was started and designed by Neame, a Royal Engineer. Various officers took it in turns to work on it in shifts of four hours per day. This was hard blistering work, but they managed
Soldier Soldier A soldier is one who fights as part of an army. A soldier can be a conscripted or volunteer enlisted person, a non-commissioned officer, or an officer. The word "soldier" derives from the Middle English word "soudeour", from Old French "soudeer" or "soudeour", meaning mercenary, from "soudee", meaning shilling's worth or wage, from "sou" or "soud", shilling. The word is also related to the Medieval Latin "soldarius", meaning soldier (literally, "one having pay"). These words ultimately derive from the Late Latin word "solidus", referring to an Ancient Roman coin used in the Byzantine Empire. In most armies use of