An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state. The term co
A French Imperial Army aide-de-camp (right)
An officer of the Bangladesh Armed Forces serving as aide-de-camp to President Hafizuddin Ahmed
Aide-de-camp Colonel Jean-Claude Cloutier with lieutenant-governor of Quebec Lise Thibault in 2006
Royal Canadian Navy shoulder boards worn by honorary aides-de-camp to the lieutenant-governors of British Columbia (left) Quebec (centre), and New Brunswick (right)
A batman or orderly is a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. Before the advent of motorized transport, an officer's batman was also in charge of the officer's "
Aide-de-camp
…more than one aide, the senior-ranking aide usually coordinates the activities of the other aides as well as personal attendants such as drivers or orderlies. The president has six military aides, one from each of the armed services. The president's aides from the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force…
French aide-de-camp, Napoleonic Wars.
Batman (military) (1802–1812)
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery with his batman, Corporal English, in 1943