| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun
( plural gentlemen-rankers )
: a gentleman serving in the British army as an enlisted man
the gentleman-ranker that Kipling met from time to time in India … was in many cases an ex-officer who had been removed from his regiment — C.S.Jarvis