Talk:Former ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces

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The Army insignia illustrated here is mostly farcical. General officers and Brigadiers had their own cap badge, not the General Service badge illustrated.

Officer Cadets wore a white stripe behind the single pip.

Warrant Officer II Class wore a crown and wreath.

Lance Corporal was not a private, and it was not a rank, it was an appointment.

This entire page is filled with errors and should be redone. Michael Dorosh 18:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't the air force "Staff SArgeant" be "Flight SErgeant"?


 * Thank you kindly for the information that you have brought here. I did not have enough information from the former rank system of the Canadian Army before unification, and therefore I used that of the UK.

Therefore I propose this - if you have better images to insert in this page, I would be happy to see them. I do have any problems with anyone placing corrections (as I should not) to this page. Christophe T. Stevenson 16:01, 15 December 2005 (EST)

FORMER RANKS OF THE CDN FORCES
The Able Seaman, Lance Cpl, Leading Aircraftman equal to the CF Cpl.

The L/Seaman, Army Cpl, Air Force Cpl equal to the Master Cpl.

The PO2, Sgt's equal to the CF Sgt.

The PO1, S/Sgt and F/Sgt equal to the CF WO.

Ref: Cdn Army Journal 1965, CF Sentinel and C&E Museum Curator.

The earlier CF rank structure included one stripe without a maple leaf = QL 3. One stripe with maple leaf = QL 4, which was dropped and the QL 3 wore no stripe.

The spelling of the rank of Sergeant has been spelt with the letter "E" since 1957 or possibly earlier. Ref: Cdn Army Manual of Unit Admin and Discipline.

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. Referencing and appropriate inline citation guidelines not met. --dashiellx (talk) 17:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Changes: Navy
As I recall from when I was an OD (long, long time ago now) we used naval ranks within Maritime Command, but on paper we were designated by the official CF ranks - i.e., my pay statements and my 490 had me listed as a Pte. It wasn't until the introduction of DEUs that the Navy finally got naval ranks brought in on the paperwork. This has irritated the artillery, armoured and engineers no end since then, too. 24.68.148.215 (talk) 04:23, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

The NCO table is completely wrong
If you look at contemporary pre-unification rank comparison charts AND the schedule in section 21 of the National Defence Act, none of them remotely look like the NCO/NCM table created here. This is going to require a major re-write. CU L8R AV8R ... J-P (talk) 12:15, 17 June 2014 (UTC)