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What is a quartermaster?

What is a quartermaster? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (military) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
  2. (nautical) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.
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Posted with the Quartermaster Corps, he held a number of positions, including the quartermaster at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
If only the quartermaster had supplied us with ammunition instead of tracts no one could decipher.
In the meantime, with makeshift materials, Davis created factories for producing powder, cannon, side arms, and quartermaster stores.
In the British army the quartermaster general's staff is a coordinating branch under the control of the General Staff.
The son of a quartermaster in the US Navy, Roche was born in Boston in 1928 and raised during the Depression.
Two shares went to the captain, one and a half shares to the quartermaster, and one share each to the crew members.

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