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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:

bulletWarrant Officer Class II Isaac Booth, 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Nov 1915. KO2490/610
bulletWarrant Officer Class II George Cooper Bowles DCM, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Apr 1923. KO1017/017
bulletWarrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant Major, George Cooper Bowles, DCM, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster. Apr 1931. KO1017/001
bulletWarrant Officer Class II James Henry Curtis, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, March 1939.  KO2513/165
bulletWarrant Officer (Class I Regimental Sergeant Major) George Victor Heaysman, number 3702480, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Jan 1939. KO2577/01
bulletWarrant Officer Class II Thomas Leach, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Apr 1917. KO1842/13
bulletWarrant Officer Class I Thomas Leach, King’s Own Royal Regiment, May 1931 KO1842/18
bulletWarrant Officer Class II Stanley Pollitt, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Mar 1915. KO1452/22
bulletWarrant Officer Class II, William Ralph, 1/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Feb 1915. KO1071/01
bulletWarrant Officer Class II, Edward Warwick, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Nov 1925. KO2538/10

 

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