Word Finder - quartermaster

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An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.

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A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.

Wilkinson then resigned (March 1778) his newly-acquired commission, but later re-entered the service in the quartermaster, He died in London on the 19th of general's department, and was clothier-general from July 1779 to March 1781.

The persons on board the fleet included 564 male and 192 female convicts, and a detachment of marines, consisting of Major Ross, commandant, 16 officers, 24 non-commissioned officers, an adjutant and quartermaster, 160 privates and 40 women.

So I had the quartermaster take them on at once.

There they will meet the Ira quartermaster who holds responsibility for the arms.

On the ground of ill health Mifflin tendered his resignation on the 8th of October, and on the 7th of November Congress accepted his resignation as quartermaster general, but continued him in rank as major-general without pay.

He later became a quartermaster in the Coast Guard Service.

One of them was Pat Harte, former quartermaster of the 3rd Battalion, West Cork Brigade.

Promoted to the rank of sergeant in 1862 he was acting regimental quartermaster by the the time the war came to an end.

As a member of the Senate committee on military affairs during the World War he took part in investigations which resulted in a reorganization of the ordnance and quartermaster departments as well as the aircraft production board.

In the passage Denisov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him.

I don't like that fellow, he said, regardless of the quartermaster's presence.

It's the quartermaster for the money.

The quartermaster frowned, looking at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them.

Rostov moved to the window to see whom he was speaking to, and saw the quartermaster, Topcheenko.

He could hear that Lavrushka--that sly, bold orderly of Denisov's--was talking, as well as the quartermaster.

The case, as represented by the offended parties, was that, after seizing the transports, Major Denisov, being drunk, went to the chief quartermaster and without any provocation called him a thief, threatened to strike him, and on being led out had rushed into the office and given two officials a thrashing, and dislocated the arm of one of them.

In attendance on him was the head of the imperial staff, Quartermaster General Prince Volkonski, as well as generals, imperial aides-de-camp, diplomatic officials, and a large number of foreigners, but not the army staff.

The German who knew little French, answered the two first questions by giving the names of his regiment and of his commanding officer, but in reply to the third question which he did not understand said, introducing broken French into his own German, that he was the quartermaster of the regiment and his commander had ordered him to occupy all the houses one after another.

Immediately on leaving the governor's, Nicholas hired post horses and, taking his squadron quartermaster with him, drove at a gallop to the landowner, fourteen miles away, who had the stud.

He made haste to finish buying the horses, and often became unreasonably angry with his servant and squadron quartermaster.

The quartermaster 's stores moved by march route to Levis barracks at Arras.

He later became a Quartermaster in the Coast Guard Service.

The letter was signed by a senior retired officer on behalf of the quartermaster general 's chief of staff.

Squadron quartermaster sergeants wear four chevrons with rank badge, the whole surmounted by a crown.

There they will meet the IRA quartermaster who holds responsibility for the arms.

Usually kept by the quartermaster, they enabled officials to figure the pay due each soldier or sailor.

The Regimental Quartermaster provides everything a Confederate reenactor needs including uniforms, accouterments and weapons.

Lt. General Edmund Gregory, Quartermaster General, noted that this was a common occurrence during peacetime, and that when the soldiers went back into battle the U.S. had to start by re-designing the uniform.

Sites such as The Quartermaster feature many of the traditional polyester uniforms (which are easy to clean and don't wrinkle very easily) as well as space-age wicking materials and rip-stop blended fabrics.