Talk:Warrant officer (United Kingdom)

Cadet forces

Do we have any references for ranks within the Cadet forces? I was in the CCF, and all contingents I came into contact with would have at least one Warrant Officer within the airforce division. Lawdroid (talk) 15:23, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Plural

For clarification, note that in the British Armed Forces, the plural of "sergeant major" is "sergeant majors" and not "sergeants major". The sergeant major is a warrant officer, not a senior sergeant, and the rank or appointment is entirely separate from that of sergeant. It is a compound word (which always used to be hyphenated) and the "major" is not in this instance acting as an adjective. For an illustration of official British usage see the very bottom of this page of the London Gazette. And it isn't a new usage either: see this page from 1881. The earliest usage of "sergeant majors" in The Times is in 1822. The last of the (very occasional) usages of "sergeants major", except when referring to American NCOs, is in 1938. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:26, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Not according to this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sergeant_major or this [1] 86.4.28.79 (talk) 20:30, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

You appear to be quoting an unreferenced Wiktionary entry (not a reliable source) and an equally unreliable source which doesn't refer to the British Armed Forces at all in any case. We've already established that the plural is "sergeants major" in the USA! However, this is not British usage, as established by the official British government gazette and the main British newspaper of record. -- Necrothesp (talk) 21:26, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

new Army Sergeant Major

http://forces.tv/05734014

Phd8511 (talk) 16:21, 17 April 2015 (UTC)