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

But in the mean time, it was necessary that the orderly officer should see Napoleon every day, and that this might be done in any way he pleased.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

We complained about the tea to the orderly officer to-day; milk is running out, so the tea is made with milk and sugar in.

From “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Keene, Louis

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

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