Cornet (rank)

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Cornet is a military rank formerly used by the armed forces of some countries.

Etymology

A cornet or "cornet of horse" was in the 17th and 18th century a term for a group of cavalry (typically 100–300 men), so-called because it was accompanied by a

cornet player (a trumpet-like instrument, from Old French cornet (14c.), Latin cornū, "horn").[1] Later "cornet" came to refer to the fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours; it never referred to the cornet player himself.[2][3] An alternative etymology claims that the term is derived from a cornette, a woman's headdress, with a strip of lace hanging down from a headdress against the cheeks; later it referred to the pennon of a cavalry troop.[4][5]

By country

Denmark

By 1717, the ranks of Fendrich and Cornet of the Royal Life Guards were officer ranks placed in the Eight class in the Danish order of precedence, normal Fendrichs and Cornets were placed in the Ninth class.[6] The rank was reintroduced in 1910–1951 as an enlisted rank.[7]

The Netherlands

The rank Kornet in the Dutch armed forces is used for last year (most senior)

Adelborst
.

Russia

South Africa

Main article: Field cornet

The rank of

apartheid-era South Africa, the rank of field cornet was used in the South African Army from 1960[9] to 1968.[10]

Sweden

United Kingdom

Winston Churchill while serving as a cornet in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars (1895). Churchill's formal rank was second lieutenant.[11]

Cornet was originally the lowest grade of

commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, the modern equivalent being a second lieutenant. The rank was abolished by the 1871 Cardwell Reforms, which replaced it with sub-lieutenant. Although obsolete, the term is still used as an internal title of address when referring to a second lieutenant within the British Army regiments of the Blues and Royals and Queen's Royal Hussars.[12]

The rank was in use by the time of the

purchase of commissions in the Army Reform Act of 1871, replaced by second lieutenant
.

United States

General Alexander Macomb was initially commissioned a cornet in a career in which he eventually became Commanding General of the United States Army.[14]

The ranks of

US Army in 1815.[15]

Traditional duties

The subaltern rank of cornet was the equivalent of the contemporary infantry rank of ensign; today both have been supplanted by the rank of second lieutenant. The cornet carried the troop standard, known as a "guidon".[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bismark, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von; Beamish, North Ludlow (12 November 1855). "On the Uses and Application of Cavalry in War from the Text of Bismark: With Practical Examples Selected from Ancient and Modern History". T. & W. Boone – via Google Books.
  2. JSTOR 27729697
    – via JSTOR.
  3. ^ "Definition of cornet | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com.
  4. ^ "Cornet | Definition of Cornet by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of Cornet". Lexico Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020.
  5. ^ Johnson, Samuel (12 November 1818). "A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar". Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Ilsøe, Lars. "Holberg og rangvæsenet". holbergsskrifter.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  7. ISSN 0108-707X
    .
  8. ^ "The Project Gutenberg e-Book of History of the War in South Africa, Vol. 1 of 4; Author: Sir Frederick Maurice". www.gutenberg.org.
  9. ^ "A dictionary of South African English on historical principles". Dictionary Unit for South African English - Rhodes University.
  10. ISSN 0026-4016
    .
  11. ^ "No. 26600". The London Gazette. 19 February 1895. p. 1001.
  12. ^ "The Armed Forces (Forms of Address)". Debretts. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  13. ^ Colonel Ninian Beall. (1937). Caleb Clarke Magruder. Records of the Columbia Historical Society. Vol. 37/38. pp. 17-29.
  14. ISBN 0-16-072376-0
    .
  15. ^ p.973 Tucker, Spencer C. The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783–1812: A Political, Social, and Military History [3 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History ABC-CLIO, 11 Jun 2014
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