Possible Clues:

• A battleship - for a fighter?
• He fights, it seems , but not in the army
• Surprise, for example, from Patrick O'Brian
• Bird a farm now can produce
• Where Gunga Din might have been all at sea
• Pole perhaps saw off fighting ship
• Battleship RAF woman redesigned
• Sounds like a hymn for the army - or the navy
• The soldier that does not fight on the battlefield
• Warship