SERVICE in the SUEZ CANAL ZONE of EGYPT until 1956

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Equivalent Ranks in the British Navy, Army and Air Force.

This page hasn't any connection with serving in the Suez Canal Zone but the information on it would have been useful to me
when out there.  Seeing an Army and a RAF officer together, I was never sure if they were of equivalent rank or if  one was
senior to the other.  So I looked in one of my reference books, come up with the following and hope you find the list useful.

         Officers
 Royal Navy
Army
   Royal Air Force
Admiral of the Fleet
 Field Marshal
 Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Admiral
 General
 Air Chief Marshal
Vice-Admiral
 Lieutenant-General
 Air Marshal
Rear-Admiral
 Major-General
 Air Vice-Marshal
Commodore
 Brigadier
 Air Commodore
Captain
 Colonel
 Group Captain
Commander
 Lieutenant-Colonel
 Wing Commander
Lieutenant-Commander
 Major
 Squadron Leader
Lieutenant
 Captain
 Flight Lieutenant
Sub-Lieutenant
 Lieutenant
 Flying Officer
Acting Sub-Lieutenant
Second Lieutenant
 Pilot Officer




Non-Commissioned Officers
Fleet Chief Petty Officer
 Warrant Officer. Class 1
 Warrant Officer

Warrant Officer. Class 2
Chief Petty Officer
 Staff Sergeant
 Flight Sergeant / Chief Technician
Petty Officer
 Sergeant
 Sergeant
Leading Rate
 Corporal
 Corporal

Lance Corporal
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Charlie Delta
October 2004.