13 Colonies Ranks
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Lance Corporal and Corporal should be Bombardier, just saying.Lance Bombardier and Bombardier mate
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(https://i.imgur.com/B261aPd.png)Colour Serjeant CSjt
Those British ranks on the main post are a tad iffy.Thanks :D
Infantry:
Commanding Officers;
Colonel - Full Colonels were Generals who held the rank of 'Colonel' within a regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel - Lieutenant Colonels were regimental commanders and often, if there was a lack of senior officers, commanded brigades
Major - There were often two Major's in each battalion, with each taking command of 5 of the 10 companies in a line regiment. Major's also supported the Lt-Col in his duties, and acted as his subalterns.
Company Officers;
Captain - Captains were company commanders, and handled the day-to-day administration of their company and commanded it in the field.
Lieutenant - The Captain's subaltern, some companies were commanded by lieutenants if there was a lack of available captaincies.
Ensign - Ensigns carried the battalion's colours, and acted as junior officers within companies.
Non-Commissioned Officers;
Serjeant-Major - These were the most senior non-commissioned soldiers in a battalion. The most senior Sjt-Maj would be appointed as Regimental Sjt-Maj's, with the rest being appointed as Company Sjt-Maj's.
(Colour-Serjeant)- (Not introduced until the Napoleonic Wars, but acted as a guard to the colour party)
Serjeant - Senior NCO's within a company (Bar CSM's, not every company had a CSM), acted as chief disciplinarians
Corporal - Corporal's acted as file closers and disciplinarians.
Enlisted Men;
Private - Backbone of the army.
(Recruit) - Not an actual military rank, but many regiments choose to use them as initial ranks for new members.
*If you are gramatically correct, you'll notice I spelt Sergeant as Serjeant. This is because the latter was how the word Sergeant was spelt, not because I'm illiterate.
regimental hessian rankings
Kapitan
Officers
Ober-oficiers
Officers
Ensign
Unterofficier
Geimene the ranks
Korporal/sergants
Gefrieter
Fusilier/grenadier/Jäger
Rekrut
thanks ;)regimental hessian rankings
Kapitan
Officers
Ober-oficiers
Officers
Ensign
Unterofficier
Geimene the ranks
Korporal/sergants
Gefrieter
Fusilier/grenadier/Jäger
Rekrut
No.
During the 18th century there hasn't been a ranking system with that many ranks within the hessian military(or any other german really) at that time.
They just start to appear in the german speaking world thanks to Prussia in 1808.
(maybe minus the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg; George III. might have in use there after they got into a personal union)
Ranks make not really sense with the hessians since they actually only had Rankers/ordinary Soldiers,
NCO's (Depending on what regiment we're talking about the Colourbearer could be the NCO or just one of the special rankers that bears some flag.)
and the Officer additionally Musicians.
A more defined rank system (as you've written) wouldn't really make sense for all those Hessians.
The major difference between ranks was mostly the weapon the Soldier had in their hands.
(Ranker a Musket or whatever Weapon fits for his Regt.;NCO mostly Partisans.;Officer mostly with some kind of Sword.)
in the case of the "Hessians" from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel there was even a difference in the Uniform between NCO and Ranker like cuffs and lapels with silver edges.
If there actually was any official Ranking it woudl have been more like this:
Actual Ranks (if any really):
Officers:
Offizier ;I've sometimes read "Obrist/Oberst" (translates into Colonel and probably meaning the "Regimentschef/Regimentsinhaber" the one person that got appointed Ownership of the Regiment by the Duke/Head of State) - Officer
NCO's:
Unteroffizier - NCO
Enlisted:
Soldat/Musketier/Füsilier/Jäger/Husar/Kanonier etc. - Private/Ranker acutal Name may Depend on what kind of Regt. they're in.
In the case of Hessen-Kassel (that made up most of those "Hessians") Officers had gorgets, NCO's had Partisans and the Rest had ordinary equipment
Yeah there were several NCO's but there was no difference between in their Uniform or any other sort of Equipment.
In that case it is completely unneccesary to have Ranks like "Ensign" and "Unterofficier" because even if they'd have those ranks
they still couldn't tell one NCO from the other apart by looking at their uniform.
Other "Ranks" (not really ranks mostly just counted as a certain duty that has been given to a Soldier):
Colour Bearer - Flaggenträger (Has obviously a flag; Generally looked like any other Ranker; unless he counted as an NCO,
and if he did it also depends if NCO-Uniform of the country he served in that only allowed NCO's in that regiment to bear flags actually differs from the uniform an ordinary ranker used.)
Musician - Musiker (Has obviously some kind of instrument; may differ depending on what instrument they play then It'd be like *Insert German name of a music instrument*-spieler)
My Source: The German wikipedia page about the "Reichsarmee" (Army of the Holy Roman Empire) here (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsarmee#Kommandostruktur);
Some pages about Regiments of Hessen Kassel on Kronoskaf like this (http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Hessian_Erbprinz_Infantry);
Knowledge I got from some books that I've read nearly a year ago and forgot the title (very old, was definitley not standart high german);
And Informations from a tour through in the Militärhistorisches Museum Dresden der Bundeswehr (where I was about a month ago.).
Militärhistorisches Museum Dresden
Great museum! Can really recommend it to everybody!
Militärhistorisches Museum Dresden
Great museum! Can really recommend it to everybody!