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Old 19-05-15, 11:36 AM
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He appears to be the RQMS, a WO2. I always found it intriguing that in some regiments, especially cavalry, the forbidding of officer pattern SD for ranks below WO1 was ignored and wondered how they got away with it. However, I read recently in a copy of Indian Army Dress Regulations 1931, that this was a special dispensation whilst serving in India, in order to bring them in line with Indian Army European WO2s in such units as Staff Clerks, the Medical Department and many others, who had always had the privilege to mark them out from natives. This privilege was caveated to be at private (i.e. not public) expense! On return Home the British regimental WO2s had to revert to normal dress.

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