Usually means: Military rank, junior to captain.
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  1. field-cornet: Merriam-Webster
  2. field cornet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. field cornet: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Field-Cornet, field-cornet: Wordnik
  5. Field Cornet, Field cornet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. field cornet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. field cornet: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (field cornet)

noun:  (South Africa, historical) A civilian official in a drostdy, invested with the authority of a military officer and empowered to act as a magistrate.
noun:  (South Africa, historical, military) The holder of a military rank equivalent to that of a lieutenant in the Boer armies as well as in the South African Army between 1960 and 1968.

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