Baustralian Army rank insignia

This is a list of Baustralian Army rank insignia.

Insignia

Current

NATO equiv. code	OF-10		OF-9		OF-8		OF-7		OF-6		OF-5		OF-4		OF-3		OF-2		OF-1						OF(D)						Student officer
Baustralia (Edit)																															No equivalent
	Field marshal		General		Lieutenant general		Major general		Brigadier		Colonel		Lieutenant colonel		Major		Captain		Lieutenant			Second lieutenant			Cadet
Abbreviation	F. M.		Gen.		Lt. Gen.		Maj. Gen.		Brig.		Col.		Lt. Col.		Maj.		Capt.		Lt.			2Lt.			Cdt.
Command flag

NATO equiv. Code	OR-9						OR-8		OR-7		OR-6						OR-5						OR-4				OR-3		OR-2						OR-1
Baustralia (Edit)							No equivalent										No equivalent												No insignia
	Baustralian sergeant major	Army sergeant major	Command sergeant major						Staff sergeant		Sergeant												Corporal				Lance corporal		Private
	Warrant officer
Abbreviation	WO								S/Sgt		Sgt												Cpl				L/Cpl		Pte

Identifying cloth

On battledress, officers wear distinctive coloured backing behind the pips and crowns on the chest strap, additionally, a title is placed on the base of the strap with the abbreviation, but not necessarily the official abbreviation, except for general staff and members in training. The King's Grenadiers are authorized to bear a more prominent rendering of a Gadus star, and the inactive Parker Regiment is authorized to bear a Oyster star. Below is an example of this, using the rank of colonel:

	Generic	Red		Infantry	Scarlet		Rifles, light infantry	Dark green		Armoured, Logistics	Yellow
	Medical branch	Dull cherry		Chaplaincy branch	Purple		Administration	Emerald green		Pay branch	Cyan

Trade distinction

For army ranks, some ranks differ depending on the traditions of the unit, borrowed from the British Army. Infantry staff sergeants are known as Colour sergeants (CSgt), cavalry sergeants are known as Corporals of Horse (CoH), rifles sergeants are known as Serjeants (Sjt), corporals acting as sergeants are known as Lance sergeants (LSgt) or Lance corporals of horse (LCoH) in cavalry regiments.

Distinctive equivalents for private include:

Bandsmen (Bdsm) - military bands with a bandmaster

Buglers (Bgr) - buglers in rifle regiments

Craftsmen (Cfn) - electrical and mechanical members in engineer regiments

Drummers (Dmr) - drummers in infantry regiments

Gunner (Gnr) - artillery regiments

Guardsmen (Gdsm) - infantry regiments

Musicians (Musn) - military bands

Pipers (Ppr) - Bagpipers

Riflemen (Rfn) - rifle regiment

Sapper (Spr) - other members in engineer regiments

Signalmen (Sig) - signal regiments

Troopers (Tpr) - cavalry regiments

Trumpeters (Tptr) - trumpeters in cavalry regiments

Former ranks

Before the reform of the Baustralian Armed Forces, the current ranks of staff sergeant and warrant officer were three separate classes of warrant officers. Following the Canadian structure, the ranks after sergeant were Warrant officer, Master warrant officer, and Chief warrant officer. In between the ranks of corporal and sergeant was an appointment given its own paygrade, Master corporal.

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