Morning all.
I'm going to prefice this request with an introduction, as I'm new here. I found out about this list from an authors board for the Baen publishing company. I had entered a question there, and someone there suggested I go here. Yes, I'm a Yank. Colonial, what-ever. Worse still, I'm a retired squid, bubblehead. (that's submarine service to you)
Worse yet, the only personal dealings I've had the the British forces is with HMS Trafalger in the mid ninties and some war games against various HMS vessels at times in the eighties and nineties.
I realize that just by benifit of the above data, I'm a ****** to half of the guys on this list. (at least to judge by the stuff I've seen as I skimmed this list.) Oh ******* well. I don't need to be told it again, got it, don't waste your electrons telling me so.
I further realize that this is going to seem like a stupid question. But I need the info for a novel I'm working on.
Does the British army stil have 'batmen', what we in the Navy called Stewards? That is to say, some enlisted guy who, in baracks takes care of the officers kit, and acts as an aid'de camp, and in the field acts as a body guard/gofer? If so, at what rank would it be resonable to see one asigned?
All of this is in aid of a Novel that one of your guys (a civilian named Chris Nuttal, works up in the U of Edinburough, and has NO military experience) and I are writeing about a multinational force.
Thanks for the time.
William Lehman
I'm going to prefice this request with an introduction, as I'm new here. I found out about this list from an authors board for the Baen publishing company. I had entered a question there, and someone there suggested I go here. Yes, I'm a Yank. Colonial, what-ever. Worse still, I'm a retired squid, bubblehead. (that's submarine service to you)

I realize that just by benifit of the above data, I'm a ****** to half of the guys on this list. (at least to judge by the stuff I've seen as I skimmed this list.) Oh ******* well. I don't need to be told it again, got it, don't waste your electrons telling me so.
I further realize that this is going to seem like a stupid question. But I need the info for a novel I'm working on.
Does the British army stil have 'batmen', what we in the Navy called Stewards? That is to say, some enlisted guy who, in baracks takes care of the officers kit, and acts as an aid'de camp, and in the field acts as a body guard/gofer? If so, at what rank would it be resonable to see one asigned?
All of this is in aid of a Novel that one of your guys (a civilian named Chris Nuttal, works up in the U of Edinburough, and has NO military experience) and I are writeing about a multinational force.
Thanks for the time.
William Lehman