Soldier died by Burmese capital without a name (7)
I believe the answer is:
dragoon
'a name' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'soldier died by burmese capital without' is the wordplay.
'soldier' becomes 'RA' (member of the Royal Artillery).
'died' becomes 'd' (abbreviation next to the year of someone's death).
'by burmese capital' becomes 'goon' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'without' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'd'+'goon'='dgoon'
'ra' placed into 'dgoon' is 'DRAGOON'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dragoon that I've seen before include "Force" , "Coerce; mounted soldier" , "Browbeat" , "Former heavily armed cavalryman" , "Cavalry officer" .)