RELATIVE RANK OF OFFICERS 224a Navy Ranks. Army Ranks. Air Force Ranks. Captain. Colonel. Group Captain. Commander. Lieut.-ColoneL Wing Commander. Ucut.-Commander. Major. Squadron Leader. I.ieutenant. Captain. Flight Lieutenant. Sub-Lieu tenant. lieutenant. Flying Officer. Acting Sub-Lieutenant. Pilot Officer. Acting Pilot Officer (but Lieutenant. Commissioned Officer from jsecond junior to Navy and Army Warrant Rank. ranks). ( N o n .—Commissioned Officers of the Royal Marines rank, according to seniority with Officers of the Army of the same titles. Commissioned Officers from W arrant Itank Royal Marines, rank with Commissioned Officers from W arrant Rank, R.N.). [Conductor, Royal Army Warrant Officer (but senior Ordnance Corps. to Army Ranks). Midshipman (but junior to : Master Gunner 1st Class. No equivalent. 11st Class Staff Sergeant- Army ranks). Major. (Noth.—Warrant Officer*, Royal Marines (except Sergeant-Majors, whose rank is the equivalent of W arrant Officer Class I in the Army), rank with W arrant Officers, R.N.). No equivalent. All Warrant Officer*, Class’ W arrant Officer. 1, except those marked* above. No equivalent. W arrant Officer, Class II. Warraut Officer, 2nd Class* Chief Petty OfficertJ. Squadron - Quartermaster Flight Sergeant. Corporal (Household Cavalry), or Squadron, Battery, Troop or Com­ pany Quartermaster Ser­ geant; Colour Sergeant; Staff Corporal (House­ hold Cavalry) or Staff Sergeant. Petty Officer}. Corporal-of-Horee (House- Sergeant. hold Cavalry), or Ser- geant. (Note.—Lance-Sergeants in the Army rank with Coroorals and Bombardiers, but senior to those ranks ana to corresponding ranks in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.) fThe following N.C.O’s of the Rovai Marines rank with C.P.O's of nine years’ seniority in the Royal Navy, viz.: Staff Clerk, Quartermaster Sergeant, Barrack Quartermaster Sergeant, Quartermaster Sergeant Instructors of Infantry, Gunnery, Small Arms, Physical antf Recreational Training and Signals, Hospital Quartermaster Sergeant, Company Ser­ geant Major, Armourer Quartermaster Sergeant. $The following N.C.O's of tho Royal Marines rank with Chief Potty Officers in the Royal Navy, viz.: Hospital Staff Sergeant and Bandmaster, 1st class, R.M. Band. JBandmasters, 2nd class, R.M. Band, rank with Petty Officers in the Royal Navy. **This rank is obsolescent. n.