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

He became an orderly officer to Garibaldi, by whom he was trusted and to whom he gave the black silk cravat he wore on entering Naples.*

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

The orderly officer glanced round the room, and then turned and walked out.

From Soldiers of the Queen by Avery, Harold

"I must get a fatigue party on to that timber to-morrow," had said the orderly officer to himself.

From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)

Your cousin Tascher conducts himself well; I have summoned him near me with the title of orderly officer.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe