orderly officer

American  

noun

1. Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.

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orderly officer British  

noun

1. another name for officer of the day

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Etymology

Origin of orderly officer

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

During the next four years he had various field commands and in 1906 he became orderly officer to General Joffre, then commander of the 6th Infantry Division in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the orderly officer and the sergeant returning from the inspection of a hut some distance off.

From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley

There was an orderly officer who was very unpopular as he had been months round the hospital and missed many chances of going to the front.

From "Over There" with the Australians by Knyvett, R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh)

He then sent an orderly officer, to see whether the bridges of Bezons and Peck had been broken down.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

Also that he is acquainted with the mode of posting picquets and their sentries and the duties of orderly officer.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.