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Originally Posted by grumpy
A frogged member of bugles relegated to the back would invite analysis if you can see it well enough surely?
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He can be no other than the bugle major, as no other bugle appointment wore a first class tunic. The seating arrangement is not so rigid as to be set in concrete, especially in rifle regiments, who have always been less obsessed with protocol. Apart from the SM and QMS being invariably positioned centrally, there’s no laid down sequence of positioning for the other battalion staff. The musketry sergeant is sat to the right and man-spreading with his hands flamboyantly on his knees. Even outside of rifle regiments there is great variation in battalion groups in terms of the seating positions of staff inferior to the SM and QMS. There is no obligatory positioning.