The British Officer: His Position, Duties, Emoluments, and PrivilegesSmith, Elder and Company, 1851 - 325 pages |
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abroad accommodation Adjutant Adjutant-General Admiralty Adult Male Aides-de-camp annuity annum appointed Army Artillery baggage barracks battalion Blue Brevet rank Brigade Buff Captain Cavalry certificate Chaplains charge charter-party claim cloth Colonel Colonies Commander-in-Chief Commanding Officer commission commissioned Officer Cornet corps Court-Martial depôt Deputy diem ditto Dragoon Guards draw forage duty East India embark Ensign entitled equipment field allowance Field Officers foreign station full-pay furlough granted half-pay horses liable Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant's mess Light Infantry Major master Medical Officers ment Motto Naval Navy Non-commissioned Officers Officer commanding Ordnance paid passage pay and allowances Paymaster pension period permitted prescribed private vessel promotion public expense Quartermaster quarters receive Regiment regulated allowance retire returning home Royal Military College rupees Secretary at War Secretary-at-War servants served Share ship soldiers Subaltern subscriber thereof tion troop or company United Kingdom vided widow Windward and Leeward Yellow
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