artillerist

noun

1. A person who operates artillery.

   “Near-synonyms: artilleryman, artillerywoman, gunner, bombardier”

   “Pelham was, in spite of his youth, an artillerist of the first order of excellence, and his loss was a serious one, in spite of his inferior rank.”

   “The experiments were not very satisfactory. Mr. Coffin, perhaps, possibly, because he was not a skilled artillerist, had the mortifying experience of seeing the apparatus in front of his cannon blown into fragments, but he made notes of the other reports.”