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This is what "Ian A Baxter" says in his "A Brief Guide to Biographical
 
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Sources" under the heading:-
 
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"Departmental and Warrant Officers of The East India Company’s Armies 1708
 
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1861, and the Indian Army 1861 1947"
 
  
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"Warrant officers in the Company’s armies held the ranks of Sub Conductor
 
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and Conductor, serving mainly in the Ordnance, Commissariat and Public Works
 
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Departments. They were recruited from the Town Major’s List (called
 
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Effective Supernumeraries in Madras) which in turn was largely recruited
 
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from the NCOs of the Company’s European regiments (see p 9) although
 
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occasionally NCOs of British regiments stationed in India were appointed to
 
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it.
 
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In 1859 the Town Major’s List became the Unattached List, and when the
 
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Company’s European regiments were amalgamated with the British Army in 1860
 
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new recruits to the Unattached List were appointed solely from NCOs of
 
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British regiments stationed in India.
 
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Conductors were eligible for promotion to Departmental Officer, ie Deputy
 
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Assistant Commissary, Assistant Commissary etc, and these grades were
 
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eventually given complementary honorary officer ranks ranging from Honorary
 
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Lieutenant to Honorary Major."
 
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Contributed to Indai list by Michael Quin-Conroy, Nov. 11 2003
 

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