Voorbeelden van batman

• Meanwhile he is whistling, and his batman is making sparks fly out of the buttons, which he cleans with glass-paper and gun-cotton just outside the door. 

• So I told my batman to get hot water brought there in the mornings. 

• Then, as time went on, I was able to get a man to take over the duties of a batman, and I finally obtained a chauffeur to run my side-car. 

• There I was met by the General's grand old batman. 

• You should have seen me this morning, sitting on the gun-seat while my batman cut my hair. 

• This is a case where an officer made a private arrangement with his batman to have his private car washed periodically.

• Some officers even used to give their pay to their batmen.

• If batmen can be made available without difficulty to married officers in quarters we shall certainly do so.

• I heard the other day that some officers have only a quarter of a batman.

• I say that a junior officer with the rank of captain is entitled to a batman.

• Batmen with fighting troops are fully armed and trained soldiers and are available for ordinary duties in the ranks.

• The number of officers to whom a batman is allotted could not be obtained without calling for a special return.

• In the latter, men of high medical categories who are employed as batmen are being replaced by others.

• The duties are similar to those carried out by batmen in an officers' mess.

• We need batmen for various essential duties in messes, and to provide personal service for officers, particularly in looking after their kit.

• The batman would have a cottage in the country, look after the colonel's horse, and he was there for life.

• For eight months he had been a batman in an officer's home.

• Batmen are not provided on an hourly basis.

• The reason is that we have not sufficient batmen to go round, so we use them in the most appropriate fashion.

• The monetary value of a batman's assistance would therefore vary, but it would be small.