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aide-de-camp| Officer who acts as private secretary to a general, commander in chief, air marshal, or Governor, and would normally accompany them on any duty. |
| Aides-de-camp are principally concerned with the organization of their superior's official social activities. The officer performing similar duties for a flag officer of the navy is known as the flag lieutenant. Senior officers are frequently appointed ADC to the sovereign. |
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Babcock, Orville E
Benton, Thomas Hart
Blackwell, Chris
Chelmsford, Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron
Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottlieb von
Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
Desbarres, Joseph Frederick Walsh
| Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen
Dundas, David
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell
Elphinstone, Mountstuart
Hamilton, Alexander
Havelock, Henry
Lynedoch, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron
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| The First Consul, who listened for Rapp's step in the adjoining salon, opened the door suddenly, and found his aide-de-camp close to the wall of the cabinet. he called, and he went into the next room where he promptly came across and aide-de-camp of his acquaintance and dropped into conversation with him about an actress and her protector. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empress's, gave his small estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk. |