What does DR stand for?

Despatch Rider

This definition appears very rarely

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Typist Joy Hunter, 83 and living in Guildford, recalled copying the battle orders for the D-Day landings while despatch rider Cyril Rider, 88, of Nuneaton, described Churchill watching the news in his dressing gown.

Exhibition hails the unsung heroes of Churchill's war rooms

He had volunteered as a despatch rider on the outbreak of war in 1914, but, faced with having to help his widowed mother, he stayed at home for the next year.

Henry Allingham; OBITUARY

Honor Blackman Hotel Babylon, BBC1, 9pm THEN During World War II, teenager Honor worked as a despatch rider for the Home Office before making her big-screen debut in Fame Is The Spur in 1947.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

The couple have lived in the same house in Gresley Road, Henley Green, since 1939 and the only time they have been separated was when George saw service as a despatch rider for the Royal Signals in the Far East during the Second World War.

Our love blossomed under a carnival wagon in 1932; MILESTONE: George ...

He recovered and volunteered to be a motorcycle despatch rider.

'Bullet in the back saved my life'

I have done every job before: I have dug holes, been a shop assistant, despatch rider, builder and even a bread man.

Look: Life Style : Ifollowed mydream; Now I've got my own book deal ...

He achieved the elevated rank of Lance-Corporal and became a despatch rider, operating out of Whitehall.

The Geordie butler and Sir Winston Churchill

You know the ones, they feature that gormless cretin who used to be a motorcycle despatch rider in Boon and the formerly attractive actress known as Leslie Ash.

Bill Borrows: I must have a screw loose