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Camp followers
Camp followers, Civilian employees of Armed Forces, such as carpenters, tailors, boot-makers, gardeners, sweepers, cooks, messengers etc., who are required to follow or accompany armed personnel 'on active service, in camp, on the march or at any frontier post'. These 'Camp followers' fall within s. 2(1)(i) and are subject to the Army Act and the rules made thereunder, Gopal Upadhyaya v. Union of India, 1986 Supp SCC 501: AIR 1987 SC 413 (414). [Army Act (46 of 1950), s. 2(1)(i)]...
Baggager
One who takes care of baggage a camp follower...
Lascar
A native sailor employed in European vessels also a menial employed about arsenals camps camps etc a camp follower...
Military Law
Military Law, as distinguished from civil law, is the law relating to and administered by military courts, and is concerned with the trial and punishment of offences committed by officers, soldiers and other persons (e.g., sutlers and camp followers) who are from circumstances subjected for the time being to the same law as soldiers. But the term 'military law' is frequently used in a wider sense and as including not only the disciplinary but also the administrative law of the Army, as, for instance, the law of enlistment and billeting, Manual of Military Law, p. 6. Consult Clode's Military Forces of the Crown....
Garciones
Garciones, servants who follow a camp, Wals. 242....
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