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Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800) – Served as an aide-de-camp to Gen. Washington from June 19 [18] to August 14, 1775, when he was promoted to Quartermaster General. [21] Stephen Moylan (1737–1811) – Served as an aide-de-camp to Gen. Washington from March 6, 1776, [54] to June 5, 1776, [55] and as a volunteer aide from September 28, 1776, to ...
An 1843 illustration of a French aide-de-camp (right) assisting a général de division (centre) during the Napoleonic wars. An aide-de-camp (UK: / ˌ eɪ d d ə ˈ k ɒ̃ /, US: /-ˈ k æ m p /; [1] French expression meaning literally "helper in the military camp" [2]) is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to ...
Tench Tilghman (/ ˈ t ɪ l m ə n /, December 25, 1744 – April 18, 1786) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He served as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. Tilghman rose to become a trusted member of Washington's staff.
In the Canadian Forces, the equivalent position is that of executive assistant.. In the United States Department of Defense, a military assistant is a military officer serving as aide to very senior civilian (typically a presidential appointee in Office of the Secretary of Defense or in the service secretariats), while a military officer in an equivalent position serving a general/flag officer ...
As a lieutenant, his reputation grew through his impetuousness as well as the wounds he received in battle. He was made aide-de-camp of Louis Desaix, who named him captain and took him to Egypt, where Rapp distinguished himself at Sediman, capturing an enemy battery. For that, he was given a squadron and later a brigade by Napoleon.
On the 25th of April, 1778, he was appointed as an aide-de-camp to General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Walker's fluency in French is what brought him to the attention of Baron von Steuben. Steuben's limited English at times frustrated his attempts to drill the soldiers at Valley Forge in complicated maneuvers. On one such occasion, Walker ...
U.S. Army SEACs wear a unique collar insignia featuring the shield portion of the insignia of an aide-de-camp to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs (less the surmounting eagle), placed upon a gold-colored Army enlisted collar disk, one inch in diameter; the collar brass is also worn in place of distinctive unit insignia on his beret, garrison cap ...
The practice of appointing family members as Personal Aides-de-Camp was begun in the 1870s by Queen Victoria. [3] In 1895 she wrote to her cousin The Duke of Cambridge (who was approaching the end of his tenure as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces) to inform him of her intention to appoint him as her first personal Aide-de-Camp, 'with the right of attending me on all military occasions and of ...