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style="display:none">Soldier or airman assigned to an officer as a personal servant</div> <p> A <b>batman</b> or <b>orderly</b> is a soldier or airman assigned to a <a href="/wiki/Commissioned_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioned officer">commissioned officer</a> as a personal servant. Before the advent of motorized transport, an officer's batman was also in charge of the officer's "bat-horse" that carried the officer's kit during a campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This <a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">British English</a> term is derived from the obsolete <i>bat</i>, meaning "<a href="/wiki/Pack_saddle" title="Pack saddle">pack saddle</a>" (from <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> <i>bât</i>, from <a href="/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French">Old French</a> <i>bast</i>, from <a href="/wiki/Late_Latin" title="Late Latin">Late Latin</a> <i>bastum</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Duties">Duties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Duties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A batman's duties could include: </p> <ul><li>acting as a "runner" to convey orders from the officer to subordinates</li> <li>maintaining the officer's <a href="/wiki/Uniform" title="Uniform">uniform</a> and personal equipment as a <a href="/wiki/Valet" title="Valet">valet</a></li> <li>driving the officer's vehicle, sometimes under combat conditions</li> <li>acting as the officer's <a href="/wiki/Bodyguard" title="Bodyguard">bodyguard</a> in combat</li> <li>digging the officer's <a href="/wiki/Defensive_fighting_position" title="Defensive fighting position">foxhole</a> in combat, giving the officer time to direct his unit<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>other miscellaneous tasks the officer does not have time or inclination to do</li></ul> <p>The action of serving as a batman was called "batting". In armies where officers typically came from the upper class, it was not unusual for a former batman to follow the officer into later civilian life as a <a href="/wiki/Domestic_servant" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic servant">domestic servant</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="By_country">By country</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: By country"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Batman_(military)" title="Special:EditPage/Batman (military)">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Napoleon_Orderly_officer_by_Bellange.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Napoleon_Orderly_officer_by_Bellange.jpg/220px-Napoleon_Orderly_officer_by_Bellange.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Napoleon_Orderly_officer_by_Bellange.jpg/330px-Napoleon_Orderly_officer_by_Bellange.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Napoleon_Orderly_officer_by_Bellange.jpg/440px-Napoleon_Orderly_officer_by_Bellange.jpg 2x" data-file-width="731" data-file-height="915" /></a><figcaption>French aide-de-camp, <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/French_Army" title="French Army">French Army</a> the term for batman was <i>ordonnance</i> ("orderly"). Batmen were officially abolished after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. However, in the 1960s there were still batmen in the French Army. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germany">Germany</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/German_Army" title="German Army">German Army</a> the batman was known as <i>Ordonnanz</i> ("orderly") from the French "ordonnance", or colloquially as <i>Putzer</i> ("cleaner") or as <i>Bursche</i> ("boy" or "valet"). </p><p>The main character <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0vejk" class="mw-redirect" title="Švejk">Švejk</a> of the antimilitarist, satirical novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk" title="The Good Soldier Švejk">The Good Soldier Švejk</a></i> by the Czech author <a href="/wiki/Jaroslav_Ha%C5%A1ek" title="Jaroslav Hašek">Jaroslav Hašek</a> is the most famous portrayal of a batman drafted into the <a href="/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Army" title="Austro-Hungarian Army">Austro-Hungarian Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>. (The 1967 German song "<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ich_war_der_Putzer_vom_Kaiser&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ich war der Putzer vom Kaiser (page does not exist)">Ich war der Putzer vom Kaiser</a></i>" is actually based on the British instrumental hit "<a href="/wiki/I_Was_Kaiser_Bill%27s_Batman" title="I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman">I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman</a>" of the same year, with original German lyrics.)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="India">India</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The old British term "orderly" continued into the post-independence <a href="/wiki/Indian_Army" title="Indian Army">Indian Army</a>. It has now, however, been replaced with the <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a> word <i>sahayak</i>, which translates as "assistant" or "helper". There have been suggestions to do away with the practice, as the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force already have.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bangladesh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Bangladesh Army, officers and officer cadets have civilian orderlies. In Bangladesh Air Force, they are called batmen. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Italy">Italy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Italy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Army" title="Italian Army">Italian Army</a> the term for batman was <i>attendente</i>, from the Italian verb <i>attendere</i> (same meaning of the English verb <i>to attend</i>). <i>Attendenti</i> were eventually abolished in 1971. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nigeria">Nigeria</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Nigeria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term <i>Orderly</i> is in use for both the military and police assistants. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pakistan">Pakistan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Pakistan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term "batman" in the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistan Army</a> dates from the period of the <a href="/wiki/British_Indian_Army" title="British Indian Army">British Indian Army</a>. In the modern Pakistan Army, civilian personnel are employed in this role and are designated as NCB (Non-Combatant Bearer) or (Non-Commissioned Batman). The term implies that the present-day batman is not a soldier or part of the fighting cadre of the army, and works only as a personal servant to each officer. </p><p>The employment of NCBs in the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Air_Force" title="Pakistan Air Force">Pakistan Air Force</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Navy" title="Pakistan Navy">Pakistan Navy</a> is not officially recognized. However both these services pay their officers an extra allowance comparable to the average pay of a household servant. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union">Russia and the Soviet Union</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Russia and the Soviet Union"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:17_2398_Book_illustrations_of_Historical_description_of_the_clothes_and_weapons_of_Russian_troops.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/17_2398_Book_illustrations_of_Historical_description_of_the_clothes_and_weapons_of_Russian_troops.jpg/192px-17_2398_Book_illustrations_of_Historical_description_of_the_clothes_and_weapons_of_Russian_troops.jpg" decoding="async" width="192" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/17_2398_Book_illustrations_of_Historical_description_of_the_clothes_and_weapons_of_Russian_troops.jpg/288px-17_2398_Book_illustrations_of_Historical_description_of_the_clothes_and_weapons_of_Russian_troops.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/17_2398_Book_illustrations_of_Historical_description_of_the_clothes_and_weapons_of_Russian_troops.jpg/384px-17_2398_Book_illustrations_of_Historical_description_of_the_clothes_and_weapons_of_Russian_troops.jpg 2x" data-file-width="387" data-file-height="522" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"> Batman (military) (1802–1812)</div></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Russian_Army" title="Imperial Russian Army">Imperial Russian Army</a> used the term <i>denshchik</i> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Денщик</span>) for a batman. In the Russian Empire higher-ranking <a href="/wiki/Cavalry" title="Cavalry">cavalry</a> officers often chose <a href="/wiki/Cossacks" title="Cossacks">Cossacks</a> for these roles as they could be reasonably depended on to survive <a href="/wiki/Combat" title="Combat">combat</a>, and were also known for resourcefulness on <a href="/wiki/Military_campaign" title="Military campaign">campaign</a>. However, they were hired help, and had to be provided with a horse also. The lower-ranking officers from serf-owning families brought a servant from home they were familiar with, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Infantry" title="Infantry">infantry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a> officers that did not require additional protection in combat, and tended to leave the servants with the unit <a href="/wiki/Baggage_train" class="mw-redirect" title="Baggage train">baggage train</a>. After the abolition of <a href="/wiki/Serfdom" title="Serfdom">serfdom</a> in the Russian Empire (1861), many officers went on campaign without servants. </p><p>Although the positions were abolished in the post-revolutionary Soviet Union, the recognition that higher-ranking officers required assistance soon fostered an unofficial reintroduction of the role through secondment of an NCO to the officer's staff, usually also as the driver, which also at one stage became their unofficial role and title as many officers often "lived" out of their vehicles. The term was borrowed from the French, but adopted to Russian pronunciation as <i>ordinarets</i> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Ординарец</span>). </p><p>Several <i>ordirnartsy</i> of the <a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Marshal of the Soviet Union">marshals</a> and generals commanding fronts and armies during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> wrote memoirs about their service. For example, <a href="/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov" title="Georgy Zhukov">Zhukov</a>'s "driver" was a semi-professional racing car driver Aleksandr Nikolaevich Buchin who met Zhukov by accident on the first day of the war when Zhukov's previous elderly driver failed to get the vehicle he was in out of the rut. Buchin drove Zhukov throughout the war and although he began the war as a private, he ended the war with the rank of captain. Buchin wrote his memoirs called <i>One hundred and seventy thousand kilometres with Zhukov</i>, at the suggestion of the marshal in the 1970s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sweden">Sweden</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sweden"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Kalfaktor</i>, derived from <a href="/wiki/Calefactory" title="Calefactory">calefactory</a> and entering the Swedish language during the 17th century, was a soldier assigned to tend to an officer from the rank of platoon leader and higher. The duties was mainly focused on practicalities like maintaining the officer's personal equipment and uniform, make sure meals and sleeping quarters are prepared and so forth, but also to remind the officer to get rest when needed and to avoid unnecessary risks. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkey">Turkey</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Turkey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term "emir eri" (literally "order private") was used for a soldier that attends an officer. The practice was abolished in 1950. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The official term used by the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> in the First World War was "soldier-servant". Every officer was assigned a servant, usually chosen by the officer from among his men. The term <i>batman</i> replaced this in the inter-war years. Batmen were among the casualties of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>, and by the Second World War only senior officers of the army and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> were officially assigned batmen, with junior officers usually sharing the services of one batman among several officers. Batwomen also served in the women's services. </p><p>Batman was usually seen as a desirable position. The soldier was exempted from more onerous duties and often got better rations and other favours from his officer. Senior officers' batmen usually received fast promotion to <a href="/wiki/Lance-corporal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lance-corporal">lance-corporal</a>, with many becoming <a href="/wiki/Corporal" title="Corporal">corporals</a> and even <a href="/wiki/Sergeant" title="Sergeant">sergeants</a>. The position was generally phased out after the war. Officers of the <a href="/wiki/Household_Division" title="Household Division">Household Division</a> however still have orderlies, because of the high proportion of ceremonial duties required of them.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steward%27s_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Steward's Department">stewards</a> performed many of the duties of batmen in the other services. Aboard ship, only <a href="/wiki/Captain_(Royal_Navy)" title="Captain (Royal Navy)">captains</a> and <a href="/wiki/Admiral" title="Admiral">admirals</a> were assigned personal stewards, with the other officers being served by a pool of officers' stewards. Most vessels carried at least two stewards, with larger vessels carrying considerably more. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Marines" title="Royal Marines">Royal Marines</a> used the term <b>Marine Officer's Attendant</b> (MOA).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term "orderly" was often used instead of "batman" in the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">colonial forces</a>, especially in the <a href="/wiki/British_Indian_Army" title="British Indian Army">British Indian Army</a>. The orderly was frequently a civilian instead of a soldier. However, from 1903 to 1939 four Indian officers from different regiments were appointed each year to serve as "King's (or Queen's) Indian Orderly Officers" in attendance on the monarch in London. While performing some routine orderly functions the main role of these officers was to represent the Indian Army in <a href="/wiki/Full_dress_uniform" title="Full dress uniform">full dress uniform</a> at ceremonial functions in front of the British public who might otherwise seldom be made aware of its existence.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/British_Armed_Forces" title="British Armed Forces">British Armed Forces</a>, the term "batman" or "batwoman" was formerly also applied to a civilian who cleaned officers' messes or married quarters. In the Royal Air Force, free married quarters cleaning services were phased out for all officers except <a href="/wiki/Squadron_leader" title="Squadron leader">squadron leaders</a> or above in command appointments as of 1 April 1972. </p><p>One famous example of officer and batman during the Second World War was British actor <a href="/wiki/David_Niven" title="David Niven">David Niven</a> and fellow actor <a href="/wiki/Peter_Ustinov" title="Peter Ustinov">Peter Ustinov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Niven and Ustinov were working on the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Way_Ahead" title="The Way Ahead">The Way Ahead</a></i>, as actor and writer respectively, but the difference in their ranks—Niven was a <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant-Colonel" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant-Colonel">Lieutenant-Colonel</a> and Ustinov a private—made their association militarily impossible; to solve the problem, Ustinov was appointed as Niven's batman. </p><p>At the start of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gazala" title="Battle of Gazala">Battle of Gazala</a> in the Second World War, Major General <a href="/wiki/Frank_Messervy" title="Frank Messervy">Frank Messervy</a> was captured by the Germans on 27 May 1942, but having removed all insignia, managed to bluff the Germans into believing he was a batman. As such, he was not closely guarded by his captors and managed to escape with other members of his staff to rejoin Division HQ the following day.<sup id="cite_ref-Mead298_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mead298-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Aides are junior commissioned officers who are available to support some of the needs of general officers who serve in command positions in the rank of <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_general_(United_States)" title="Brigadier general (United States)">brigadier general</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and above, and those of <a href="/wiki/Flag_Officer#United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag Officer">Flag Officers</a> in the grade of Rear Admiral (lower half) and above in the Navy and Coast Guard. These aides "perform tasks and details that, if performed by general or flag officers, would be at the expense of the officer’s primary military and official duties."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their assistance, however, is restricted to those tasks which are directly related to the officer's official duties.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to officers being assigned as <a href="/wiki/Aide-de-camp#United_States" title="Aide-de-camp">aides de camp</a>, all the US Services, including the US Coast Guard, also use enlisted personnel in support of General Officers and Flag Officers. This program is officially known as the Enlisted Aide Program. Generally the personnel are military cooks; however, in recent years, any enlisted person could volunteer to serve in this position. They attend a joint service course for Enlisted Aides and advanced culinary course for cooks.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many are often sent on to education outside the military to become chefs and butler training. Some will also be used as stewards and stewardess on very senior officer aircraft. In addition General and Flag officers are assigned a driver. Drivers may get additional training but not always in driving, taking their service's or another service's driver course and or other government agency's driving schools. Only personnel in the Enlisted Aide Program can serve as an Enlisted Aide. Drivers, admin personnel and others on the personal staff are often but not always selected locally.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ordinarily, enlisted service members would be prohibited from performing services as an aide. "No officer may use an enlisted member as a servant for duties that contribute only to the officer's personal benefit and that have no reasonable connection with the officer's official responsibilities,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> according to the Department of Defense instruction 1315.09 for Enlisted Aides. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> the term "striker" or "dog robber" (a slang term implying that the soldier ate table scraps otherwise given to the officer's pet dog<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) was unofficially used, although that could also be applied to a junior officer who acted as a <a href="/wiki/Gofer" title="Gofer">gofer</a> to somebody with high rank. The actor <a href="/wiki/James_Garner" title="James Garner">James Garner</a> played such a role in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Americanization_of_Emily" title="The Americanization of Emily">The Americanization of Emily</a></i> (1964). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fiction">Fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-In_popular_culture plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>may contain <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">irrelevant</a> references to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trivia_sections#"In_popular_culture"_and_"Cultural_references"_material" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections">popular culture</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help Wikipedia to <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit">improve this article</a> by removing the content or adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">citations</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">independent sources</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2021</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_L._Sayers" title="Dorothy L. Sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Whose_Body%3F" title="Whose Body?">Whose Body?</a></i> (1923) and subsequent novels, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey" title="Lord Peter Wimsey">Lord Peter Wimsey</a>'s valet <a href="/wiki/Mervyn_Bunter" title="Mervyn Bunter">Mervyn Bunter</a> was also his batman during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. </p><p>In the novella <i><a href="/wiki/Goodbye,_Mr._Chips" title="Goodbye, Mr. Chips">Goodbye, Mr. Chips</a></i> (1933), Mr. Chipping's former student, Peter Colley, is killed during the Great War attempting to save the life of his batman and childhood antagonist-cum-friend, Perkins. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jaroslav_Ha%C5%A1ek" title="Jaroslav Hašek">Jaroslav Hašek</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk" title="The Good Soldier Švejk">Good Soldier Švejk</a></i> begins his WWI military career as a batman to army <a href="/wiki/Chaplain" title="Chaplain">chaplain</a> Otto Katz; Katz loses him at cards to Senior Lieutenant Lukáš, whose batman he then becomes. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a> media, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Pennyworth" title="Alfred Pennyworth">Alfred Pennyworth</a> (<a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a>'s butler, created in 1943) has been referred to multiple times as "Batman's batman." Currently unsubstantiated rumors have it that Alfred was also Thomas Wayne's (Bruce Wayne's late father) batman when both men were in military service. </p><p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Eagle_(British_comics)" title="Eagle (British comics)">Eagle</a></i> comic strip <i><a href="/wiki/Dan_Dare" title="Dan Dare">Dan Dare</a></i> (first published in 1950), Digby is Dan's batman. </p><p><a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> took the relationship of his characters <a href="/wiki/Samwise_Gamgee" title="Samwise Gamgee">Samwise Gamgee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frodo_Baggins" title="Frodo Baggins">Frodo Baggins</a> (introduced in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring" title="The Fellowship of the Ring">The Fellowship of the Ring</a></i> in 1954) from his observations while in military service during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> of the relationship between a batman and his officer.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1967, the pseudonymous <a href="/wiki/John_O%27Neill_(musician,_born_1926)" title="John O'Neill (musician, born 1926)">Whistling Jack Smith</a> (actually a session vocalist) recorded an all-whistling number called "<a href="/wiki/I_Was_Kaiser_Bill%27s_Batman" title="I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman">I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman</a>", which went Top 5 in the UK. Despite a title that baffled most Americans (who no doubt were thinking of the other <a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a>), the tune hit number 20 on the <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> charts.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the musical film <i><a href="/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang" title="Chitty Chitty Bang Bang">Chitty Chitty Bang Bang</a></i> (1968), <a href="/wiki/Caractacus_Potts" class="mw-redirect" title="Caractacus Potts">Caractacus Potts</a>'s father was Lord Scrumptious's batman. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> sitcom <i><a href="/wiki/Blackadder_Goes_Forth" title="Blackadder Goes Forth">Blackadder Goes Forth</a></i> (1989), set during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, actor <a href="/wiki/Tony_Robinson" title="Tony Robinson">Tony Robinson</a> portrays Private S. <a href="/wiki/Baldrick" title="Baldrick">Baldrick</a>, the bumbling and incompetent batman to Captain <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Blackadder" title="Edmund Blackadder">Edmund Blackadder</a>. In the earlier series, taking place between the 1400s and the early 1800s, he plays Edmund Blackadder's <a href="/wiki/Dogsbody" title="Dogsbody">dogsbody</a> Baldrick, a similar, non-military role. </p><p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Honor_Bound_series" title="Honor Bound series">Honor Bound</a></i> book series (1993–2012), the character of Sergeant Major Enrico Rodriguez served in this capacity to Cletus Frade's father. </p><p>In the television show <i><a href="/wiki/Archer_(2009_TV_series)" title="Archer (2009 TV series)">Archer</a></i> (created in 2009), the eponymous character's valet, Woodhouse, was the batman of his superior officer in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. </p><p>In the television series <i><a href="/wiki/Downton_Abbey" title="Downton Abbey">Downton Abbey</a></i> (2010–2015), Lord Grantham's valet, Mr Bates, was his batman in the <a href="/wiki/Boer_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Boer War">Boer War</a>; it also appears that William Mason was assigned to be Matthew Crawley's batman in the First World War. </p><p>In the television series <i><a href="/wiki/Blunt_Talk" title="Blunt Talk">Blunt Talk</a></i> (2015–2016), Adrian Scarborough played Harry Chandler, Falklands War veteran and former Royal Marines lance corporal turned Walter's valet. </p><p>In the 2012 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Days" title="Cold Days">Cold Days</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jim_Butcher" title="Jim Butcher">Jim Butcher</a>, the lead character, Harry Dresden is assigned a batman, and initially both Harry and Cat Sith are very unhappy with this assignment. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>'s 2013 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Monstrous_Regiment_(novel)" title="Monstrous Regiment (novel)">Monstrous Regiment</a></i>, the main character serves as batman to her lieutenant. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Frank_Herbert" title="Frank Herbert">Frank Herbert</a>’s 1984 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Heretics_of_Dune" title="Heretics of Dune">Heretics of Dune</a></i>, Patrin, the aide of Miles Teg, is referred to as the Bashar’s Batman. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungarian</a> movie <a href="/wiki/Taxidermia" title="Taxidermia">Taxidermia</a> (2006) Vendel Morosgoványi serves as a batman condemned to performing menial duties for the officer and his family while sleeping in an unheated shack next to the latrines. He frequently escapes into fantasy. So realistic are these fantasies that in one ambiguous instance, Morosgoványi sleeps with and impregnates the lieutenant's wife and "wakes up" to find himself engaged in an act of <a href="/wiki/Sodomy" title="Sodomy">sodomy</a> with a slaughtered pig. </p><p>The film <a href="/wiki/Journey%27s_End_(2017_film)" title="Journey's End (2017 film)">Journey's End</a>, and the 1928 stage play, are largely concerned with the comings and goings of the officers of a Company on the line in France. A small cadre of servants also housed in the officers' dugout have numerous lines, and their operations and especially the interactions with the officers are seen in some detail. The most senior of these soldier-servants, and the cook for all the officers is played in the 2017 film by <a href="/wiki/Toby_Jones" title="Toby Jones">Toby Jones</a>. </p><p>In the novel <a href="/wiki/The_Remains_of_the_Day" title="The Remains of the Day">Remains of the Day</a> by Kazuo Ishiguro, the batman of a Colonel, now serving him as a butler, helps fill up the radiator of Mr. Stevens car with water. </p><p>In the Vorkosigan Saga books, most notably <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shards_of_Honour&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shards of Honour (page does not exist)">Shards of Honour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barrayar" title="Barrayar">Barrayar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mirror_Dance" title="Mirror Dance">Mirror Dance</a> by <a href="/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> the use of a Batman is mentioned several times, in Shards of Honour Bothari is formerly Vorrutyers batman and in Mirror Dance Mark Vorkosigan while pretending to be his identical brother several times is offered by another character who is delivering his equipment to be his batman. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batman_(military)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aide-de-camp" title="Aide-de-camp">Aide-de-camp</a> (ADC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adjutant" title="Adjutant">Adjutant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagman" title="Bagman">Bagman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equerry" title="Equerry">Equerry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Squire" title="Squire">Squire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valet" title="Valet">Valet</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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"3 Operation Torch". <i>Crack! and Thump: With a Combat Infantry Officer in World War II</i> (Kindle). Camroc Press LLC. p. 28. <q>Your batman's first job [...] is to dig a slit trench. [...] Then he digs a slit trench for you. Because, Charlie, if you're an officer in command and you come under fire, you're going to be so damn busy figuring out how to get out of the mess you're in, you'll never have time to dig your own slit.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=3+Operation+Torch&rft.btitle=Crack%21+and+Thump%3A+With+a+Combat+Infantry+Officer+in+World+War+II&rft.pages=28&rft.pub=Camroc+Press+LLC&rft.date=2007-01-08&rft.aulast=Scheffel&rft.aufirst=Charles&rft.au=Basden%2C+Barry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABatman+%28military%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Sänger der Fünfziger Jahre" is a web-page maintained by Günter Schiemenz dedicated to the popular music of the 1950s under www.fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de. You find the recordings of "Die Travellers" under <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de/Travellers/Tra-Lieder.htm">fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de/Travellers/Tra-Lieder.htm</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090816211617/http://www.fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de/Travellers/Tra-Lieder.htm">Archived</a> 16 August 2009 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Searching for "Putzer" you will find the below data in German language: <dl><dd><i>Ich war der Putzer vom Kaiser</i></dd> <dd>Authors: R. Greenaway / R. Cook /, German Text: Fred Oldörp,</dd> <dd>Artists: Die Travellers,</dd> <dd>Year of recording / first publication: 1967,</dd> <dd>Single: Philips 346 057 PF,</dd> <dd>LP: Jubel, Trubel, Travellers (Philips 844 325 PY),</dd> <dd>LP: Der Pleitegeier (Philips 6305 111),</dd> <dd>LP: Die fröhliche Rille – Einmal geht's noch (Fontana 6434 267),</dd> <dd>Original song: I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman (Whistling Jack Smith, 1967)</dd></dl> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.schlaile.de/m.php/Tontraeger/Details.php/805/Various_Super_Schlager_Box_3.html">"Super Schlager Box 3 Interpret: Various (1998)"</a>. <i>schlaile.de</i>. 2014. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140810005028/http://www.schlaile.de/m.php/Tontraeger/Details.php/805/Various_Super_Schlager_Box_3.html">Archived</a> from the original on 10 August 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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