bringer

1. (specifically, historical) Someone who supplies or identifies potential recruits for the military in exchange for payment.Examples: "Hancox's recruitment would have gone something like this. In Conventry, where he may have been selling food or livestock at the town's market, he would have been intrigued by the recruiting party, especially the 'bringer', usually a sergeant, no doubt a tall man in scarlet with gold stripes on his sleeve."historicalspecifically