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PRECEDENCE 25 By Royal Warrant dated December lth, 1888, the "Commissariat and Transport Staff" was abolished, and its Officers were transferred to a Corps designated the " Army Service Corps," and were granted substantive arid titular military rank. By another Royal Warrant, dated IQth June, 1896, the " Ordnance Store Department" was abolished, and a general department for the ordnance services of the Army was established, under the designation of " The Army Ordnance Department," the officers of which enjoy substantive military rank. The result of these changes is that the designations Commissary-General (Maj. -General), Deputy and Assistant Commissary -General (Colonel), and Deputy Assistant Commissary-General (Captain) have disappeared, except as applied to officers who were on the non-effective list previous to the provisions of these Warrants coming into operation. By Royal Warrant dated June '23rd, 1898, the title of Surgeon-Major-General was altered to that of Surgeon-General, arui the officers of this rank alone were constituted the " Medical Staff " of the Army. The officers of the late Army Medical Staff, below the rank of Surgeon-Major-General, together with the Warrant Officers, N on-Commissioned Officers, and men of the Medical Staff Corps were formed into a corps styled " The Royal Army Medical Corps," and the officers were granted substantive and titular military rank. Consequent on the Royal Warrant of 9th Jan. 1907, Surgeon-Generals and Colonels are now shown as removed from the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the term Army Medical Staff became obsolete. By Royal Warrant dated August Qth, 1898, the alteration of ranks just described ivas extended to the officers of the Indian Medical Service. Consequently the com- pound titles of Surgeon- Major-General, Surgeon- Colonel, Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel, Sur- geon-Lieutenant-Colonel, Surgeon-Major, Surgeon- Captain, and Surgeon-Lieutenant have disap- peared in the Regular Army, except in the case of certain retired officers, of medical officers who were appointed to the regimental establishment of the Foot Guards previous to March, 1904, and Medical Officers of the Household Cavalry. By Royal M' arrant of February 16th, 1899, the Officers of the Army Pay Department ivere granted substan- tive rank, and by Royal Warrant dated 5th October, 1903, titular military rank was given to the Officers of the Army Medical Department. Military officers in the service of the late Hon. East India Company used to enjoy the same prece- dence as those in the service of the Crown, only so long as they remained eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. West of the Cape they had no military rank whatever ; but by an order of the st of May, 1885, it was settled no such distinction should be drawn, and "in all parts of Her Majesty's domin- ions and elsewhere " they luere declared to be entitled to rank and precedence with officers of the regular Army, according to the dates of their commissions. The subsequent extinction of the East India Coin- pany, and conversion of the forces into "Her Majesty's Indian Ariny," abolished all distinctions. Officers of the Special Reserve and Yeomanry of the United Kingdom take rank with officers of the regular forces as the youngest of their degree, and take precedence amongst themselves accord- ing to the dates of appointment in their respect- ive ranks. Officers of the regular forces, Special Reserve and Yeomanry of the United Kingdom have precedence of, and command over, the officers of equal degree serving in the Honourable Artil- lery Company and Territorial Force, and officers of the Honourable Artillery Company and Terri- torial Force take precedence amongst themselves according to the dates of appointment in their respective ranks. An officer of the Royal Malta Artillery takes rank and precedence below other officers of the regular forces of the same grade. Honorary rank, as well as the substantive rank of departmental officers, carries the same precedence as the corresponding military rank, except as regards general command and the presi- dency of Coui'ts and Boards. The following is the order of precedence of the several regiments and corpjs — 1. The Household Cavalry, consisting of the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, and the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues). 2. The Royal Horse Artillery ; bvit on parade, with their guns, this corps takes the right, and marches at the head of the Household Cavalry. 3. The Regiments of Cavalry of the Line, which comprise the seven Regiments of Dragoon Guards, and the twenty-one Regiments of Dragoons, Lancers, and Hussars in numerical order. 4. The Royal Regiment of Artillery (local companies abroad excepted). The Royal Marine Artillery takes the left of the RoyaL Artillery. 6. The Corps of Royal Engineers. 6. The Regiments of Foot Guards in the fol- lowing order : — Grenadier Guards, Cold- stream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards. 7. The regiments of the Infantry of the Line, including the Royal Marine Light Infantry^ in the following order : — The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). ' The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)^ The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). The Northumberland Fusiliers. The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). The King's (Liverpool Regiment). The Norfolk Regiment. The Lincolnshire Regiment, The Devonshire Regiment. The Suffolk Regiment. The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light In- fantry). The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment). The East Yorkshire Regiment. The Bedfordshire Regiment. The Liecestershire Regiment. The Royal Irish Regiment. Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (York- shire Regiment). The Lancashire Fusiliers. The Royal Scots Fusiliers. The Cheshire Regiment. The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The South Wales Borderers. The King's Own Scottish Borderers. The Canieronians (Scottish Rifles). The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The Gloucestershire Regiment. The Worcestershire Regiment. The East Lancashire Regiment. The East Surrey Regiment. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). The Border Regiment. The Royal Sussex Regiment. The Hampshire Regiment. The South Staffordshire Regiment. The Dorsetshire Regiment. The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment). The Welsh Regiment. The Black Watch (Roy. Highlanders). The Oxfordshire Light Infantry. The Essex Regiment. The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). J The Loyal North Lancashire Regt. The Northamptonshire Regiment. Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment). Royal Marine Light Infantry. The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)*