A question for the intelligensia
Thanks for the answers Whenurhappy and PN. Shame the hard copy AFL has gone
When I was dealing I occasionally got hold of 19th Century army lists. Absolutely fascinating - the pre 1881 lists had a table listing the prices of commissions. An ensign in the infantry was the cheapest at £500 IIRC. On the other hand a colonelcy in the cavalry would set you back several thousand. Dunno how Sharpe is supposed to have got his commission in the Rifles - maybe exceptions were made for talented rankers. Most of the officers in the smarter regiments also appeared in Burke's Peerage, although an element of that still exists!
When I was dealing I occasionally got hold of 19th Century army lists. Absolutely fascinating - the pre 1881 lists had a table listing the prices of commissions. An ensign in the infantry was the cheapest at £500 IIRC. On the other hand a colonelcy in the cavalry would set you back several thousand. Dunno how Sharpe is supposed to have got his commission in the Rifles - maybe exceptions were made for talented rankers. Most of the officers in the smarter regiments also appeared in Burke's Peerage, although an element of that still exists!
Pontius Navigator,
Any organisation that has an 'R' at the beginning is definitely worthwhile. It's some of the loggie, HR and Sy 'professional' bodies that are distinctly dodgy.
It took me 18 years to get my post-nominals correctly entered on the list - and then they did away with it. On one ocasion they wouldn't recognise my Masters' with Honours (in my field an Hons degree was different from a plain old Masters') on the basis that they couldn't find MSc(Hons) as a State Honour! I eventually had to go to a clerk in the SUpport Unit in MB and I carefully dictated the post-nominals to him and jokingly added DSO, which he duly typed in. I said that I was only joking and 'backspace, backspace, backspace' corrected the entry. I, too, have three degrees plus membership of organisations with a Royal Charter, and now the name on my payslip rolls on to the second line, pushing the post-code off the end. Luckilyy I'm serviced by a BFPO (though, not for much longer).
I didn't realise that we were no longer 'Gazetted'. That's a real shame - like the AIr Force List -for posterity.
Any organisation that has an 'R' at the beginning is definitely worthwhile. It's some of the loggie, HR and Sy 'professional' bodies that are distinctly dodgy.
It took me 18 years to get my post-nominals correctly entered on the list - and then they did away with it. On one ocasion they wouldn't recognise my Masters' with Honours (in my field an Hons degree was different from a plain old Masters') on the basis that they couldn't find MSc(Hons) as a State Honour! I eventually had to go to a clerk in the SUpport Unit in MB and I carefully dictated the post-nominals to him and jokingly added DSO, which he duly typed in. I said that I was only joking and 'backspace, backspace, backspace' corrected the entry. I, too, have three degrees plus membership of organisations with a Royal Charter, and now the name on my payslip rolls on to the second line, pushing the post-code off the end. Luckilyy I'm serviced by a BFPO (though, not for much longer).
I didn't realise that we were no longer 'Gazetted'. That's a real shame - like the AIr Force List -for posterity.
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If we are all supposedly members of the 'intelligensia', how come nobody has spotted, until now, that the word is misspelled!
It should be either intelligencia or intelligentsia.
It should be either intelligencia or intelligentsia.
If we are all supposedly members of the 'intelligensia', how come nobody has spotted, until now, that the word is misspelled!
It should be either intelligencia or intelligentsia.
It should be either intelligencia or intelligentsia.
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To fulfill a rather pathetic desire to see my name in print I have recently acquired a copy of the 1968 issue of The Army List.
I think it was more freely available in those halcyon days of long ago; my copy is marked 'Official Copy' and 'Restricted - The information given in this document is not to be communicated, either directly or indirectly, to the Press or to any person not authorised to receive it'. No mention of 'Top Secret' or anything like that.
I think it was more freely available in those halcyon days of long ago; my copy is marked 'Official Copy' and 'Restricted - The information given in this document is not to be communicated, either directly or indirectly, to the Press or to any person not authorised to receive it'. No mention of 'Top Secret' or anything like that.
