Soldier

A soldier was an individual who fought as part of an organised land-based armed force. The Doctor despised soldiers. (TV: The Doctor's Daughter, Into the Dalek, The Caretaker)

The Twelfth Doctor rejected Journey Blue's request to travel with him as she was a soldier. When Journey pointed out that the Doctor didn't like soldiers, he retorted "you're the ones with the guns; you don't have to be liked." (TV: Into the Dalek)

Corakinus, king of the Shadow Kin and leader of the War of the Underneath, was of the opinion that in signing up for war, a soldier signed up to die. He felt that cowards should be weeded out of every army, and that, specifically, soldiers at Dunkirk should have stayed and died in battle. (TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart)

Miss Quill believed that a soldier without fear was inefficient, and was one that won battles, but lost wars. (TV: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did)

Martin Frith was a soldier for the Forge. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus)

The Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard and C'rizz met a group of Ondrockan soldiers on Setarus. (AUDIO: The Twilight Kingdom)

Adam Mitchell believed the Ninth Doctor to be a soldier in comparison to his other incarnations. (COMIC: Prisoners of Time)

Bryn Lavers was a soldier for the Fifth Axis. He was ordered to spy on Bernice Summerfield. He was later murdered by the robot waiters at the pub where Benny stayed on Daglan Straklant's orders, when he couldn't remove his disguise as a robot waiter. (PROSE: The Doomsday Manuscript)

Drone Daleks were soldiers of the Dalek Empire and New Dalek Paradigm. (TV: Victory of the Daleks, Asylum of the Daleks)

Danny Pink was a soldier in the British Army before he became a mathematics teacher at Coal Hill School. (TV: Into the Dalek, The Caretaker)

In the 1st century BC, it was common practice for Roman soldiers to rape women before killing them in order to instil fear in the places they conquered. Erimem killed several Roman soldiers and later expressed to Andy Hansen that if she hadn't, they likely would have raped her and Andy before murdering them. Later, Anna Whitaker was nearly raped by drunk men because she had turned down the lewd advances of one man the previous night. (PROSE: The Last Pharaoh)

Behind the scenes

 * A generic UNIT soldier features as a character in the video game Doctor Who: Legacy.