I can learn all the great things you expect me to learn there better among the rankers than the officers.
"An Orkney Maid"
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
There are many gentlemen rankers in this war.
"Notes of a War Correspondent"
Richard Harding Davis
rankers as officers are apt to be bullies: that we all know jolly well.
"A Poor Man's House"
Stephen Sydney Reynolds