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Definition of Orderly sergeant
1. Noun. The first sergeant of a company; duties formerly included the conveyance of orders.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orderly Sergeant
Literary usage of Orderly sergeant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"THE SHUT-EYE SENTRY SEZ the Junior orderly sergeant To the Senior Orderly Man: "
Our Orderly Orf'cer's ..."
2. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons: Giving a Complete History of the Inhuman by Robert H. Kellogg (1865)
"Early on the morning of the 4th, I was aroused from my sleep by'one of the boys,
who gave me the sad news that orderly sergeant L , of Co. ..."
3. The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography, with Portrait by Parker McCobb Reed (1882)
"In February, 1865, he entered the army as orderly sergeant of Company C, Fifty-second
Wisconsin regiment, and served until the regiment was disbanded in ..."
4. Aviation in Canada, 1917-1918: Being a Brief Account of the Work of the by Alan Sullivan (1919)
"Civilian clothes were packed and sent to any address the owner might wish, and
recruits were turned over to the barrack orderly sergeant who "carried on. ..."
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