By the 26th, the common soldiers had become anxious about his health, or thought he was already dead.

As usual, the common soldiers knew very little about their situation, and for us this movement seemed to mean that everything was going better.

He spoke the language of the common soldier, and led from the front.

What would they do if all the common soldiers went home?

Maybe the experience would teach him something about what a common soldier's life was like.

He supposed that a common soldier's life in any army was not a happy one.

"Even the common soldiers fear this course we have taken."

He did not venture out much among the common soldiers of his mother's forces.

It's like asking a general to fight as a common soldier.

For a couple of common soldiers, silence seemed the better course.