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Colour sergeant information


Service dress insignia for a colour sergeant of the Royal Marines.

Colour sergeant (CSgt or C/Sgt) is a rank of non-commissioned officer found in several armies and marine corps.[1]

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Colour-sergeant" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 731.

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appointment if held. The equivalent rank in infantry regiments is colour sergeant, and holders are known by that title no matter what their appointment...

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rank structure. It is equivalent to a staff sergeant or colour sergeant in the British Army, a colour sergeant in the Royal Marines, and a chief petty officer...

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The orderly room sergeant (ORS), orderly room colour sergeant (ORCS) or orderly room quartermaster sergeant (ORQMS) is the chief clerk of an infantry battalion...

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a sergeant major appointment, as well as a number of staff sergeant and colour sergeant appointments. In the British Army, quartermaster sergeants are...

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and referred to as Lance Sergeants. In The Rifles, every Sergeant rank or appointment (Sergeant, Colour Sergeant, and Sergeants Major) is spelled using...

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the Royal Regiment of Artillery as a Battery Sergeant Major (BSM). By 1913, there were two colour sergeants in each infantry company. On 1 October 1913...

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Humphreys, Peter Colour Sergeant Royal Welch Fusiliers 9 May 1996 Bosnia and Herzegovina Baycroft, John David, MBE Colour Sergeant Parachute Regiment...

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the rank of bandmaster was equivalent to colour sergeant and that of staff bandmaster to quartermaster sergeant (equivalent to a warrant officer class 2)...

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long course. A pipe major may subsequently be promoted to staff sergeant/colour sergeant, warrant officer class 2, and rarely warrant officer class 1. A...

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unusual for over double the 60 places to be contested. Sergeants and Colour Sergeants (Staff Sergeants from Infantry units) attend the Instructors Cadre....

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and above the rank of leading hand. It is equivalent to the rank of colour sergeant in the army and the royal marines cadets; it is sometimes an appointment...

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