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A 1942 photograph of a British tank regiment soldier shaving in the desert in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

Alabaster bas-relief showing a vulture pecking an eye of a soldier who was killed by the Assyrian army. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 11 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day...

Limestone funerary slab depicting a Galatian soldier being handed a drinking cup by a serving boy, Alexandria, late 3rd century BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A photograph of a soldier tending the grave of a fallen comrade near Ypres after the Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917) in Flanders, Belgium during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums...

Image of a modern-day Cheyenne Dog Soldier at a Native American Powwow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2008. The Dog Soldiers are one of the military societies of the Cheyenne nation.

A December 1915 photograph of a Maori soldier, member of the ANZAC, taken in the trenches during the failed Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-6 in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

Grave stele of Staphilos, son of Glaukias, from the Bosporan Kingdom. It depicts a soldier with the traditional Bosporan long hair and beard, and Scythian costume. It dates to the 2nd century CE and comes from the Necropolis of...

A Christmas card dating to c. 1887 showing a soldier. Drawn by Harry Payne, military themes were popular with those who sent cards to family members in the armed services across the British empire. (Victoria and Albert...

Alabaster bas-relief showing a vulture attacking a dead enemy soldier, who was killed by the Assyrian army. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 3 (bottom), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day...

Roman invective (uituperatio lat.) was the rhetorical and literary genre that aimed at systematically and publicly blaming a political foe to set him aside from the whole community and turn the audience against him during judicial...