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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [India-L] British Army Officer - E. A. Green
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 10:36:12 +0100
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Robin -

You will see that I have already thanked Mandeep Bajwa for correcting me
over Field Officers, thank you also.

Although I have to confess total ignorance over Regimental Quartermaster
Corporals of Horse, (a term that bamboozles both Google and Dog Pile), I
attempted to keep this simple for simple souls (subject to errors) such as
myself; covering myself by indicating that more exotic rank terms could be
found in various regiments and corps.

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia
As usual we vomited into the channel that which divides Albion from Gallia.
Rivers are said to run blood after an engagement; the Channel is
discoloured, I am sure, in a less elegant and less pernicious way by English
tourists going and coming. Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's

From: "Robin Volkers" <>
>
> only a small point - field officers start at Major. Corporal Major is
> broadly equivalent to Sergeant Major, and tends to be found in the
> cavalry - though I regret I can't remember offhand if it is all cavalry
> regiments (such as still exist) or just the Household Cavalry. But you
> didn't discourse on such exotic gentlemen as the Regimental
> Quartermaster Corporal of Horse!


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