CONDUCTORS senior?
Total cobblers, put about by ............
............. CONDUCTORS.
There's a surprise.
Yes they were the earliest WO created, 1879 as opposed to 1881.
Yes they can take place of subalterns on relevant parades, but
No, each Conductor is/was a WO I [after 1915 when WO II was created] whose seniority within group (i) below is determined by date of warrant. The small print says that all in this group are of same status but each is "senior" when carrying out the duties of the appointment. Thus at Sandhurst the AcSM is king, and indeed a SWO on his own station.
Much of the conductors' huffing and puffing stems from the alphabetical nature of how the list used to be presented, but many issues of KR and QR have footnotes which spell out that this is not a precedence list.
I imagine these new Army and Corps appointments have been/ will be added to Army QRs and of course will be in group (i).
Warrant Officer – class 1
(i) Conductor, RLC,Ro Artillery Sergeant Major, Academy sergeant major, RMAS, Garrison sergeant major London District
[there are three junior WO I groupings listed.}
The list is taken from the last hard copy Army QR as amended.