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Warrants
Warrants appointing Non-Commissioned Officers (Colour Sergeants,
Sergeants, Corporals and Lance Corporals) as Warrant Officers.
Generally Warrant Officer Class 2 (typically a Company Sergeant Major or
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant) or Warrant Officer Class 1
(Regimental Sergeant Major). Warrant Office Class 3 (Platoon
Sergeant Major) existed in the Second World One to cover the short of
officers as platoon commanders.
Warrant to Warrant Officer Class 2 Thomas Leach, appointment dated April
1917 and warrant dated July 1918.
Accession Number: KO1842/13
Warrant to Warrant Officer Class 1 George Cooper Bowles, DCM, King's Own
Royal Regiment, April 1923.
Accession Number: KO1017/001
Items in the museum's collection:
| Warrant Officer Class II Isaac Booth, 3rd Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Nov 1915. KO2490/610 |
| Warrant Officer Class II George Cooper Bowles DCM, King’s
Own Royal Regiment, Apr 1923. KO1017/017 |
| Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant Major, George
Cooper Bowles, DCM, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster. Apr
1931. KO1017/001 |
| Warrant Officer Class II James Henry Curtis, 1st
Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, March 1939. KO2513/165 |
| Warrant Officer (Class I Regimental Sergeant Major) George
Victor Heaysman, number 3702480, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Regiment, Jan 1939. KO2577/01 |
| Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Leach, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, Apr 1917. KO1842/13 |
| Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Leach, King’s Own Royal
Regiment, May 1931 KO1842/18 |
| Warrant Officer Class II Stanley Pollitt, King’s Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, Mar 1915. KO1452/22 |
| Warrant Officer Class II, William Ralph, 1/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Feb 1915. KO1071/01 |
| Warrant Officer Class II, Edward Warwick, King’s Own
Royal Regiment, Nov 1925. KO2538/10 |
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in other institutions. An appointment is required to consult any of
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