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Originally Posted by grumpy
Weird. CWGC could find none. Thats really weird and certainly not to be discounted of course.
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See enclosed.
1. Reading 'Perry' under the sections on Lance Corporal and Lance Sergeant, the description for BOTH, further defines them as 'Acting Corporal' and 'Acting Sergeant', someone holding a rank, but not paid for it.
2. The enclosed lists of Lord French's 1914 MID for the Foot Guard regiments mentions both, Lance Corporal and Acting Corporal within the same list. I can only think that this relates to some caveats laid down in the Royal Pay Warrant. It is clear that both, wear the exact same badges of rank/appointment, so the difference can only be in status (seniority, pension, remuneration). It seems then that both terms were in use concurrently.
3. The Foot Guards reference that I saw (and currently cannot find) showed diagrams of the rank badges and the titles alongside. It suggests that Acting had been used as a euphemism for Lance. One can understand why.
NB. See:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...Guards&f=false