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.
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This is a case where an officer made a private arrangement with hisbatmanto have his private car washed periodically.
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Some officers even used to give their pay to their batmen.
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If batmen can be made available without difficulty to married officers in quarters we shall certainly do so.
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I heard the other day that some officers have only a quarter of abatman.
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I say that a junior officer with the rank of captain is entitled to abatman.
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Batmen with fighting troops are fully armed and trained soldiers and are available for ordinary duties in the ranks.
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The number of officers to whom abatmanis allotted could not be obtained without calling for a special return.
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In the latter, men of high medical categories who are employed as batmen are being replaced by others.
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The duties are similar to those carried out by batmen in an officers' mess.
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We need batmen for various essential duties in messes, and to provide personal service for officers, particularly in looking after their kit.
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Thebatmanwould have a cottage in the country, look after the colonel's horse, and he was there for life.
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For eight months he had been abatmanin an officer's home.
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Batmen are not provided on an hourly basis.
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The reason is that we have not sufficient batmen to go round, so we use them in the most appropriate fashion.
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The monetary value of a batman's assistance would therefore vary, but it would be small.
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