Talk:Eric Harper

When did he become Sergeant Major?
I have raised a citation need against his achieving rank of Sergeant Major. His CWGC casualty record lists him under the rank of Trooper (as does the Jerusalem Memorial), a private soldier rank in a mounted regiment, which suggests at some point before his death he had been demoted. (It was a practice in volunteer regiments for some NCOs and even officers to relinquish existing higher ranks because of available establishment vacancies in order to have a place on an expedition.)Cloptonson (talk) 19:28, 7 October 2014 (UTC)