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Soldier (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ299032 ↗
Source-derived summary

A soldier is a member of an armed force, primarily one engaging on land (rather than in the air or on/in water)

Soldier(s) or The Soldier(s) also may refer to:

Places in the United States

Soldier, Idaho

Soldier, Iowa

Soldier, Kansas

Soldier, Kentucky

Soldier, Pennsylvania

Soldier Field, football stadium in Chicago, Illinois

Soldier Key, Florida

Soldiers Lake, Arizona

Soldier Lakes (Nevada)

Soldier Mountain, a ski area in Idaho

Soldier Mountains, Idaho

Soldier Mountain, California

Soldier River, Iowa

Soldier Summit, Utah

Soldier Township, Crawford County, Iowa

Soldier Township, Jackson County, Kansas

People

Soldier (surname)

Soldier (artist), Nigerian artist

Soldier of The Salvation Army, a Salvationist who has signed the Soldier's Covenant

Toy Soldier (Doctor Steel fan), a fan of musician and Internet personality Doctor Steel

Arts and entertainment

Films

Soldiers (film), a 1956 Soviet drama film

The Soldier (1982 film), a Cold War action film

Soldier (1998 American film), a science fiction film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson

Soldier (1998 Indian film), a thriller film

Soldier (2009 film), an Indian film directed by Vijaya Nirmala

The Soldier, a 2011 Australian short documentary by Shark Island Productions

The Soldier (2016 film), a Nepali film

Literature

"The Soldier" (poem), a poem by Rupert Brooke, fifth in a series entitled 1914

The Soldier, a 2018 novel by Neal Asher

The Soldier, a 1960 novel by Richard P. Powell

The Soldiers, a 1776 play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace, a 2021 book by Max Hastings

Music

The Soldiers, a British singing trio, soldiers in the British Army

Albums

Soldier (album), a 1980 album by Iggy Pop

The Soldiers (album), an album by The Soldiers

The Soldier (album), a 1979 Billy Higgins album

Songs

"Soldier", a 1982 song by Payolas

"Soldier", a 2002 song on the album The Eminem Show by Eminem

"Soldier", a 2013 song from In a World Like This by Backstreet Boys

"Soldier", a song on the 1970 album Twelve Dreams of Dr.

Editorial summary

“Soldier (disambiguation)” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Soldier, disambiguation and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1982, 1998, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Soldier, disambiguation and Wikimedia.
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“Soldier (disambiguation)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Soldier, disambiguation and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q299032. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956, 1982, 1998 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Soldier (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.