The army certainly had similar anomalies in the Great War.
Robert Graves was embarrassed and amused by his elevation.
As a Special Reserve officer of the RWF he was promoted on the regimental SR list. There was a lot of dying going on.
By the time he reached the Front he was a captain, very young, with zero experience, now serving alongside subalterns holding temporary war-time commissions with months of trench exposure.
The compounding anomaly was that regulars of any rank were senior to those of the SR of the same rank, who were in turn senior to TF. This was later addressed.