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

Not long after Napoleon went to Longwood an amusing incident happened, resulting from the panic of Captain Poppleton, the orderly officer whose duty it was to guard Napoleon on his rides.

From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Reed, Helen Leah

This news rendered the government uneasy; and, as there was no orderly officer then at hand, the Duke of Vicenza requested me, to go and reconnoitre.

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

One orderly officer still remembers the impassioned complaint of a hungry soldier who "wouldn't insult his youngest child by offering it a meal of that size."

From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.

The orderly officer who apprehended me in the act told how he did it, speaking as if from a book but consulting neither notes nor papers.

From The Red Horizon by MacGill, Patrick