Welsh Archer (male, age range: 35-55), a professional soldier, with almost a mercenary attitude.

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But as a professional soldier, and the son of a professional soldier, he knew the army.

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His father was a professional soldier, and when Mr Powell was called up in the second world war he naturally joined his father's regiment.

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He was a professional soldier with a wife and children.

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He was a professional soldier, having joined the army at 17, gradually rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, partly through luck, partly because of his mastery of army bureaucracy.

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He was a professional soldier and a natural leader.

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Lt Col Robin Lindsay, the soldiers' commanding officer, described Cpl Savage as an "exceptional soldier" and praised "his composed and professional approach (which) had a calming influence on his platoon".

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The soldier's colleagues said he was a "fantastic, engaging and professional man" who was "universally popular".

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