Being bashful, little company for a soldier (3)
I believe the answer is:
coy
'being bashful' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'little company for a soldier' is the wordplay.
'little' indicates taking the first letters.
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a soldier' becomes 'oy' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The initial letter of 'company' is 'c'.
'c'+'oy'='COY'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for coy that I've seen before include "Group of soldiers" , "Pretending modesty" , "Affectedly modest or shy" , "Reserved" , "not forthcoming" .)