Talk:Eric Harper

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When did he become Sergeant Major?[edit]

I have raised a citation need against his achieving rank of Sergeant Major. His CWGC casualty record lists him under the rank of Trooper (as does the Jerusalem Memorial), a private soldier rank in a mounted regiment, which suggests at some point before his death he had been demoted. (It was a practice in volunteer regiments for some NCOs and even officers to relinquish existing higher ranks because of available establishment vacancies in order to have a place on an expedition.)Cloptonson (talk) 19:28, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]