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dispatch rider
noun
A messenger on a motorcycle.
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I was a dispatch rider in the desert, but I never took part in any fighting.
Graham Walker was an army dispatch rider during World War One and later became a successful motorcycle racer.
He appears to be some kind of dispatch rider, a letter bearer, but that is all we – and he – know.
During the first world war her father, James, was a cavalryman and her mother, Nellie (nee Hodges), a dispatch rider who later raced motorcycles.
Allingham had just turned 18 when the first world war broke out and wanted to volunteer for the army as a dispatch rider.
He described stopping his motorbike (he was a dispatch rider), pulling off his helmet and taking the call from the police that would change his life.
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In Paris, French prosecutors open a criminal inquiry into the photographers and dispatch riders arrested at the scene.
Pugs steam across picnic blankets like asthmatic footstools as owners – part-time models, retired dispatch riders – chat like parents at the school gate.
Other means of communication such as runners, flags, pigeons, lamps and dispatch riders were used but were found inadequate.
The equites were used as scouts and dispatch riders rather than battlefield cavalry.
The cavalry troops were used as scouts and dispatch riders rather than battlefield cavalry.
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