billeting officer

Many families had children forced on them by billeting officers.

I think my being there was a put up job between the lady and the billeting officer.

I told the billeting officer I liked books and he said there was a library here.

'I got the rooms through the billeting officer, in a big house.

'Billeting officers' arranged for people to look after the children.

I still had my navy blue greatcoat, and went to the billeting officer for a few more blankets.

Is there a billeting officer here or-?"

We dont need to employ billeting officers.

Tom leaves Will alone for a while as he goes and complains to Mrs Ford, the billeting officer.

A third boy was busy with a play script based on a conversation between the billeting officer and a villager who refused to take an evacuee.

World War II has just started, and he is forced by the local billeting officer to house an evacuee from London.

Remaining in Nelson when the war started, he initially served as an Air Raid Precautions equipment officer, and as a billeting officer for incoming evacuees.

A batch of children accompanied by a young woman and the billeting officer who had brought Willie had walked past them and were heading towards the Town Hall.

He was originally a billeting officer, but it was soon realised that his voice - a clear, light baritone - was too good for him to remain in an administrative role.

In some rural communities the role of billeting officer brought out the worst in people, as Evelyn Waugh amusingly recorded in Put Out More Flags (1942).

I was sent hither and thither on messages, and sometimes went in the car with a billeting officer to help him or her with young children who were being placed in homes.

Yes, I could stay the night, as I was homeless and compulsorily brought here, but in the morning, as I was over twenty-five, I must report to the billeting Officer.

We arrived at our new lodging in Althorp Street, Bedford, feeling a little suspicious, as the Billeting Officer protested rather too much that the billetors were anxious to have us.

Upon arrival at the camp, a billeting officer met the squadron and informed them that they would be assigned to civilian quarters in the town until the squadron could erect some wooden barracks on the station compound.

He fought with the Black Scots regiment in Matabeleland and the Boer War and in France during World War I, which he ended in 1918 as a Billeting Officer.

Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh, in which Waugh's anti-hero Basil Seal uses his position as Billeting Officer to extort bribes (for moving disruptive children elsewhere) from hapless and reluctant hosts.

Swallows in their hundreds were wheeling and swooping over the rooftops, the harbingers of evening, and he pushed on, nodding and smiling at the people, and he noticed in the next street how the doors still bore the chalk marks left by the French billeting officers.