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Nearly right. You are referring to the Household Cavalry made up of the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals or more correctly Royal Horse Guards/Dragoons. Other Royal Armoured Corps Regiments, be they Hussars, Cavalry, Lancers or Dragoons use the same rank structure and naming convention as the remainder of the Army. Colour Sergeant in place of Staff Sergeant is peculiar to the Infantry only and of course, Bombadier/Lance Bombadier replacing Corporal/Lance Corporal in the Royal Artillery. The other peculiarity of the Houshold Division is the Foot Guards Lance Corporal will wear two chevrons, a Corporal equivalent is termed a Lance Sergeant and wears three chevrons. A full Sergeant is only distinguished in formal wear (gold vs white chevrons), in working dress, the rank slides are indistinguishable.
From my memory so may not be absolutely correct.
Oh my goodness. And I thought the US Navy was saddled with hundreds of years of tradition unhampered by progress.
