Batman (military) men where in military service. In the Terry Pratchett novel "Monstrous Regiment", the main character serves as batman to her lieutenant. In the animated TV series "ReBoot", 1 binome Binky Ffarquarson is batman to 0 binome fighter pilot Algernon Cholmondley-Worthington III (who is addressed in canon only as "sir"). Batman (military) A batman or an 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 "bat-horse" that carried the pack saddle with his officer's kit during a campaign. The
Soldier Soldier A soldier is one who fights as part of an army. A soldier can be a conscripted or volunteer enlisted person, a non-commissioned officer, or an officer. The word "soldier" derives from the Middle English word "soudeour", from Old French "soudeer" or "soudeour", meaning mercenary, from "soudee", meaning shilling's worth or wage, from "sou" or "soud", shilling. The word is also related to the Medieval Latin "soldarius", meaning soldier (literally, "one having pay"). These words ultimately derive from the Late Latin word "solidus", referring to an Ancient Roman coin used in the Byzantine Empire. In most armies use of