Soldiers

As a generic project? I don't know. So far we have armies for some countries, and profiles as members of those armies.

Also there's ranking? Which changes over time. And for current, different armed forces services, but perhaps the same occupation, yes?

Interesting question.

Feedback?

Also think about navy, air force, marines. Would everyone be in one project or different projects?

We'd have to think of it as several projects, I think.

Let's walk through a historic figure as an example.

A knight (honor) might have been a professional soldier (occupation) for different armies (? How categorized?) in different conflicts (wars, battles). He might have started as cavalry (unit) officer (rank) and ended his career as a lord High commander (? Government official ?).

Generic
- soldiers
- sailors
- ??

Might be best.

For a knight it will depend on the period. Knighthood was not originally an honor, but later became one. There was a period when every man of a certain class became a knight upon reaching adulthood. People could pay to be excused from that military obligation, and still later it became routine to excuse everyone unless they sought it.

By definition, a knight / soldier was always cavalry. Not so after it became purely an honor. Similarly, in the original form of knighthood a knight was generally a type of officer in the sense that would command a sergeant or two and some pikemen and maybe archers at his own expense from his own manors.

I think it would be a mistake to try correlating knights to later military organization.

The specific projects I am aware of are all associated with particular 'engagements', not as an occupation. e.g.: World War II, American Civil War (actually, as Union & Confederate Armies), WAVES of WW-II (women), etc...