Ordonnance (militaire)

A batman or 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 officer's kit during a campaign. This British English term is derived from the obsolete bat, meaning "pack saddle" (from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum). The military term long predates the appearance of the fictional superhero Batman. A batman's duties often include: acting as a "runner" to convey orders from the officer to subordinates maintaining the officer's uniform and personal equipment as a valet driving the officer's vehicle, sometimes under combat conditions acting as the officer's bodyguard in combat digging the officer's foxhole in combat, giving the officer time to direct his unit other miscellaneous tasks the officer does not have time or inclination to do The action of serving as a batman was referred to as "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 domestic servant. In the French Army the term for batman was ordonnance ("orderly"). Batmen were officially abolished after World War II. However, in the 1960s there were still batmen in the French Army. In the German Army the batman was known as Ordonnanz ("orderly") from the French "ordonnance", or colloquially as Putzer ("cleaner") or as Bursche ("boy" or "valet"). The main character Švejk of the antimilitarist, satirical novel The Good Soldier Švejk by the Czech author Jaroslav Hašek is the most famous portrayal of a batman drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War. (The 1967 German song "Ich war der Putzer vom Kaiser" is actually based on the British instrumental hit "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" of the same year, with original German lyrics.) The old British term "orderly" continued into the post-independence Indian Army.

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Dans le domaine militaire, un ou une ordonnance est un domestique militaire, un soldat attaché à un officier. L'officier d'ordonnance est un officier subalterne attaché à un commandant en chef et dépend pour ses missions de l'aide de camp de service. Napoléon avait 12 officiers d'ordonnance. Les ordonnances ont remplacé les fraters dans l'armée française. Dans les armées des pays anglophones, le mot « batman » désigne le domestique militaire d'un officier.

Domesticité

vignette|droite|redresse=1|Le personnel de maison à , comté de Waterford, vers 1905. vignette|droite|redresse=1|Des travailleurs domestiques aux États-Unis en 1914. La domesticité est l'ensemble des employés affectés au service d'une personne ou d'une famille. Un travailleur domestique est une personne qui travaille dans le cadre de la résidence.