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Hi everyone. I have a story set in 1857 which features a Colonel in the British Indian Army. Up until now, I've referred to another character in the novel as having been the hero's batman during the war. However, I've just seen some conflicting information that makes me think the term batman might be outdated and that, instead, the soldiers assigned to officers as servants were called orderlies. Does anyone know anything more about this? Also, instead of referring to it as a war, should I say that the character had been his batman or orderly during the uprising? I'm not confident about how those back on the British home front would have addressed this.