Awful sort of revolutionary shot by soldiers (4)
I believe the answer is:
ogre
'awful sort' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'revolutionary shot by soldiers' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' says the letters should be written backwards.
'shot' becomes 'go' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'soldiers' becomes 're' (Royal Engineers).
'go' back-to-front is 'og'.
'og'+'re'='OGRE'
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ogre that I've seen before include "Human-eating giant" , "Cruel giant of folklore" , "Giant of folklore who liked to eat humans" , "Bugbear" , "Wicked and inhuman person" .)