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What would be the best way to describe soldiers with which you did not serve directly in this sentence:
“who plans a similar attack to avenge his colleagues, annihilated in the false war that followed...”
I found compatriots or comrades. Any other one-word ideas?
Comrades in arms comes to mind, or as suggested earlier, brothers in arms.
Just re read your question and realized you were looking for one word. In that case I'd go with comrades or compatriots. If they were sailors, shipmates.
Peers? You could add the nationality to add context eg "his German peers".
"A person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in a group" (Cambridge Dictionary)
