Sentence examples for dispatch runner from inspiring English sources

For most of the war, he served as a dispatch runner for his regiment's commanders.

True, as a dispatch runner he did occasionally have to risk gunfire; but for the most part he had a cushy war, sleeping on a proper bed with a proper roof an hour's walk behind the front, and most of the time he was well out of danger.

Posted to the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 (1st Company of the List Regiment), he served as a dispatch runner on the Western Front in France and Belgium, spending nearly half his time well behind the front lines.

During the Battle of the Somme in October 1916, he was wounded in the left thigh when a shell exploded in the dispatch runners' dugout.

During the recent L.A. Festival of Books, he had a team of helpers and strode about like General Patton with a walkie-talkie, dispatching runners to get books signed by big names like Michael Connelly and T.C. Boyle, thus increasing their value.

On the day of the bombings, the senior nurse in the ICU became responsible for organising and dispatching runners to get updates, particularly from the operating theatre.

The senior nursing office area in the ICU was set up as the ICU coordination centre, with the ICU matron taking a lead administrative role in organising and dispatching runners to get updates, particularly from the operating theatre.

For most of the war, the Army's primary methods of communication were signal dispatch (employing runners, messengers on horseback, dogs, and carrier pigeons), visual signalling, telegraph, and telephone.

Envisioning an online service for dispatching errand-runners, she quit her job as an I.B.M. software engineer to build it.

For example, he explained, a Relay deliver might be dispatched to a runner or go out alongside a regular milk van delivery if it is taking a route that allows the on-demand delivery to go to the customer.

When his general discovered that Maycomb was meandering in the hills while the Creeks were lurking in every pine thicket in the south, he dispatched a friendly Indian runner to Maycomb with the message, Move south, damn you.