Sankoh,a former army corporal and photographer, led the first attacks on villages in a diamond-rich province of Sierra Leone in 1991.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

At Arlington National Cemetery just outside the nation's capital, Marine Lance Corporal David Baker is laid to rest.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Corporal Rist should know. He is one of the thousands of U.S.military personnel that have been injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

You then move up to become the gunner and finally the operator, who is usually a corporal or lance corporal and quite an experienced soldier.

BBC: A Challenger 2 in Basra

Many of those prayers on it are in memory of Corporal Channing Day and Corporal David O'Connor, killed here in October in a suspected insider attack.

BBC: Remembrance Day on the front line

On 1 March 2011, Theo and Lance Corporal Tasker were on a mission in support of the Irish Guards in the Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand, when a fire-fight broke out, killing Lance Corporal Tasker.

BBC: Army sniffer dog Theo given top honour