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The '''Unattached List''' recorded Warrant Officers ([[Conductors]] and Sub- Conductors) and Non-Commissioned Officers (mainly Sergeants) who were not attached to a regiment. This Note the more senior Warrant Officers could be promoted to Honorary Officer rank. The Unattached List mainly covered soldiers working for the [[Ordnance]], [[Commissariat]] and [[Public Works Department]]s. Before 1859 this list was known as the '''Town Major's List''' in Bengal/Bombay and [[Effective Supernumerary|Effective Supernumeraries]] in Madras.
G.O.G.G. of 24th November 1821, in respect of Bengal, issued the "Rules for the re-establishment of the Town Major’s List".<ref>[http://www.google.com/books?id=26sEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA71 ''Calcutta Annual Register 1821''] Retrieved 28 Jul 2014.</ref> The staff it applied to included the Ordnance and Army Commissariats, and all Departments of Army or Garrison Staff, Public Offices, Military Agencies, Charitable Asylums, and the Stud and Ecclesiastical Department.
