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'''''Contributed to India list by Michael Quin-Conroy, 11 Nov 2003'''''
'''''Contributed {{Origin|text=This article was contributed by Jim Parker from and added with permission from Mike Comerford'''''}}
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[[Conductors]] were eligible for promotion to Departmental Officer, ie Deputy Assistant Commissary, Assistant Commissary etc, and these grades were eventually given complementary honorary officer ranks ranging from Honorary Lieutenant to Honorary Major."
{{Origin|text=This article was contributed to India list by Michael Quin-Conroy, 11 Nov 2003}}
== The Honourable and Ancient Appointment of Conductor - Royal Army Ordnace Corps ==
The appointments were still in use when Acting Assistant Commissary James Langley DALTON VC, of the Commissariat and Transport Department, was awarded the VC for action on 22 January 1879 at Rorke's Drift during the Zulu War. As he was a Commissary of Supplies, his VC should also have come over to the RAOC in 1965!
== Recommended reading ==
[http://shop.fibis.org/journal.html FIBIS Journal 18] "The Army Rank of Conductor, and the History of an HEIC Conductor VC" by Lawrie Butler (Research Co-ordinator)
