dispatch rider

noun

1. a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches

Example Sentences

Eddie Brown was a dispatch rider in the Royal Corps of Signals.

From BBC

Alistair Horne’s classic account, “To Lose a Battle,” reports that Gamelin’s headquarters lacked telephone or other electronic links to his field commanders; it had to make do with dispatch riders.

From Salon

The ATS was the largest of the auxiliary services deploying women to non-combat rolls such as clerks, drivers and dispatch riders to free up men for front line duties.

From Seattle Times

With his knowledge of motorbikes, Moore was asked to train dispatch riders.

From BBC

She studied part time while holding down a clerical job in the Home Office, and, with war raging, also worked as a motor cycle dispatch rider.

From BBC