billet-masters

Noun

billet-master (plural billet-masters)

1. An officer whose job is to assign billets to soldiers.
   • At last he met a man, of whom he asked the way to Mr. Barry's. "To Mr. Barry's?" said the man; "what Barry is it you want?" "I can't say exactly in the dark," returned the soldier. "Mr. What's-his-name, the billet-master, has given me the direction on my billet; but he said it was a large house...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 538