adjutant

The wartime state, along with legions of self-appointed adjutants, regularly reminded women that to “keep the home fires burning,” they had to stoke the coals of romance with regular loving letters to men in uniform.

Mr. Wright, my Adjutant, saw one strike in a puddle between him and myself as we marched at the head of the Regiment.

"You may be thankful if you don't get those two young alligators in the other tank," said a gruff-voiced adjutant.

That was a difficulty at first, as neither the adjutant's nor my book gave the French for bacon.