DCHP-2
returned man DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a veteran returned from overseas service.
See also: returned
- 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.
- 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.