Aide-de-camp

Canada

The General governor of Canada has several , aide-de-camp Capitaine S or the lieutenants, which coordinate the whole of its activities and displacements.

The Lieutenant-governors also have aide-de-camps, but often, this function is more symbolic system and honorary.

The senior officers also have aide-de-camps

In all the cases, the aide-de-camps carry a yellow cord identifying their function. Those in service near the General governor carry his badge on the shoulder pads. The aide-de-camps of the lieutenant-governors carry on their shoulder pads the armorial bearings of the province concerned.

The aide-de-camps can add initial the " ADC" at the end of their signature, after the identifications of medals.

France

History

Since XVIe century, the staffs were equipped with young officers charged to carry the orders of control (i.e. dictated in the course of battle, in order to modify the starting direction of the units) by the general-in-chief.

Wars of the French revolution

The October 5th 1790 the constituent Assembly institutes the body of the aide-de-camps the function of the aide-de-camps is defined as follows:

To distribute the various orders emanating from the generals,
to supervise the ordinance of the camps,
to ensure the monitoring of the provisioning, the residences, etc, in general intendance.

In 1790,136 aide-de-camps were named, whose ranks went from captain to colonel and the balances from 1.800 to 9.000 books.

They are often highly skilled riders which are distinguished, in time of war, by their ardor and their speed to carry the orders, in spite of the sometimes important dangers (to cross a battle field or an enemy zone), and in times of peace, by their uniforms chatoyants. Some generals or famous marshals began like aide-de-camps: Murat, Junot, Marmont. Although the function is dangerous, it missed volunteers forever.

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