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returned man
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a veteran returned from overseas service.
See: returned
Quotations
1915
An army of returned soldiers--all real men--who have been away fighting for the Empire are not going to return with their bodies wrecked and their nerves shattered and allow themselves to be told what is right and what is wrong by a bunch of stay-at-home aldermen or freak legislators.
1917
He has been engaged by the publicity agents of the Hon. Frank Cochrane, along with the other returned men. . . .
1957
He . . . told us that 85 per cent of them were returned men, many of whom had been unfitted for ordinary employment by war.
1958
To the northeast, in the Blueberry Mountain District lies an area of good farmland . . . where many returned soldiers and others settled a number of years ago.