despatch-rider

I made immediately for the Mairie, bent upon securing billets for officers and men; but standing at the gateway was a Corps despatch-rider who handed over instructions for the Brigade to continue the march to Estree St Denis, a town twenty kilometres distant.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

Beale of A Battery, we made our way to the mess, where Major Veasey and the adjutant were sorting out alterations in the operation orders just brought by a D.A. despatch-rider.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

He wrote as follows, and told me to hand the message to the returning despatch-rider: --

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

I was in the middle of reading the news when suddenly, without warning, the inner door opened and a young despatch-rider, still wearing his crash helmet, walked in waving a piece of paper.

The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view Norman F. Joly

He explained to me that the Division despatch-rider had somehow failed to find Brigade Headquarters, but had come across him.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

Here I found a despatch-rider, who said that reinforcements had arrived at Spion Kop early in the morning, that our men had immediately climbed the hill, and that, the issue being very, uncertain, we might have to retreat during the night.

With Steyn and De Wet Philip Pienaar

I had forwarded by despatch-rider the Brigade return of casualties to the staff captain, so that reinforcements might be applied for forthwith.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

We were mounted and moving off to participate in this theoretical battle, when the "chug-chug-chug" of a motor-cycle caused us to look towards the hill at the end of the village street: a despatch-rider, wearing the blue-and-white band of the Signal Service.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

He was most likely a despatch-rider who went to warn the guard at Commandonek to retreat.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

While we were giving our horses a rest there, a despatch-rider came along looking for a reconnoitring corps.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919