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Conductors and sub Conductors
This lists is what "Ian A Baxter" says in his "A Brief Guide to BiographicalSources" under the heading:-"Departmental and Warrant Officers of The East India Companys Armies 17081861, and the Indian Army 1861 1947" "Warrant officers in the Companys armies held the ranks of Sub Conductorand Conductor, serving mainly in the Ordnance, Commissariat and Public WorksDepartments. They were recruited from the occupations Town Majors List (calledEffective Supernumeraries in Madras) which your ancestors may have been engaged in whilst turn was largely recruitedfrom the NCOs of the Companys European regiments (see p 9) althoughoccasionally NCOs of British regiments stationed in India were appointed toit.In 1859 the Town Majors List became the Unattached List, and when theCompanys European regiments were amalgamated with the British Army in 1860new recruits to the Unattached List were appointed solely from NCOs ofBritish regiments stationed in India.Conductors were eligible for promotion to Departmental Officer, ie DeputyAssistant Commissary, Assistant Commissary etc, and these grades wereeventually given complementary honorary officer ranks ranging from HonoraryLieutenant to Honorary Major." Contributed to Indai list by Michael Quin-Conroy, Nov. 11 2003
