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Originally Posted by grumpy
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Courtesy of Graham Stewart some years ago:
WOI 194 of the 22nd August 1914 deals with 'Acting' ranks.
I’ve not seen the detail of that WOI, which would be illuminating to see.
Another interesting point is that in AO 142 of 1920 it was decreed that Lance Sergeants of the RA and RE respectively, would not wear the gun and grenade arm badges respectively, in order to differentiate from full sergeants of those corps. I felt this to be of interest and probable relevance with regards to Foot Guards Corporals and Lance Corporals and their wear, or not, of the Grenadier’s grenade arm badge that I referred to above. It was clearly not a novel method of differentiation.
It also seems possible that the ACI of WW1 insisting that all NCOs on the home establishment were to be promoted to acting rank only might have some bearing on the reference that I had seen to Acting Corporal as an alternative usage for Lance Corporal in the Foot Guards given their unique rank badges. The following thread refers:
https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...the-ra/page/3/