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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1941, Page 2

An attempt to clear up what he described as lack of knowledge about the ranks in both the Navy and the Army was made by Major A. N. Oakley, M.C., in an address to Rotarians in Napier. A warrant officer, he explained, was a hank between a commissioned officer and an n.c.o. and was addressed by all lower ranks as “sir” bitt not saluted. Brigadier was a rank and had taken the place of brigadier-general, which no\v did not exist. A brigadiei 1 was next in rank to a major-general. He

had been asked, said Major Oakley, why a major-general was inferior in rank to a lieutenant-general. The explanation was that major-general was really an abbreviation of ser-geant-major-general. A lieutenant was always addressed as “Mr.” but written to as “lieutenant.” A captain was addressed as “Captain Jones” or whatever' his name might be. It was wrong to say “Good morning, captain,” for instance, although major and colonel could bo used as titles on their own in forms of address.