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Meanings of dispatch rider in English

Spanish
despacho

Military messenger.

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Usage of dispatch rider in English
1
A dispatch rider from the Highland Light Infantry came by on a Harley-Davidson.
Atonement
2
We stopped the next Imperial dispatch rider who came through town.
Shadows in Bronze
3
Kohlvihr turned to a dispatch rider at the door-a door made of cedar trunks.
Red Fleece
4
At the far end of the street a cavalry squad was galloping forward, behind a single dispatch rider.
Red Fleece
5
The dispatch rider was standing by.
Red Fleece
6
A dispatch rider was coming back from a night ride on a machine which had side-slipped all the way from Ypres.
The Soul of the War
7
And soon after Henri's arrival a dispatch rider set off post haste with certain papers and maps, hurriedly written and drawn.
The Amazing Interlude
8
A dispatch rider was started off at once for Jackson, and Jackson struck Pope at Cedar Mountain before he could be re-enforced.
Rebel Raider
9
He has been acting as a dispatch rider, and I can make a pretty shrewd guess about what you took from him.
The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand
10
He had a dangerous job as a dispatch rider, was commended for bravery and was awarded a number of medals, including the Iron Cross.
The Irish Times
11
The staff colonel in the office was perfectly civil, but said that the returns had been forwarded by a motor dispatch rider to G.H.Q.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories / 1918
12
He was a dispatch rider in Normandy just after the invasion, and got blown up in a mortar attack, his mates killed around him.
Life
13
Sometimes there came a warning shriek from behind, and everything drew to one side to make room for a dispatch rider on a motor cycle.
A Minstrel in France
14
As a motorcycle dispatch rider, I was always armed with both an 1888 Commission Rifle and a DWM 1914 military artillery Luger.
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1
15
Dispatch riders whirled busily around our group of heavy transports.
The forgotten soldier
16
Some, with ordinary bicycles or motorcyles, were made dispatch riders.
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
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