Quartermaster-sergeant

Quartermaster-sergeant is a military rank.

Swiss Army

In the Swiss army the rank is located between those of Sergent-chef and Fourrier. It has the rank of higher warrant officer.

Since the reform of Army XXI (01.01.2004), the quartermaster-sergeant is a rank exclusively reserved for a technical higher warrant officer, whereas before this rank also indicated and mainly the quartermaster-sergeant of unit (which currently has the rank of Quartermaster-sergeant chief ).

Its badge is composed of two surmounted rafters of a cross surrounded by bay-trees.

French Army

At the 19th century, the quartermaster-sergeant is, in a company, the fourth more graded in the hierarchical order, after the Capitaine, the lieutenant and the Sous-lieutenant and more graded Sous-officier S (there is no then Adjudant). Nevertheless, taking into account the various missions, the training courses, the vacation, etc the quartermaster-sergeant was often the assistant of the captain ordering the company.

He is also the president of the warrant officers and the accountant of the unit. He organizes the interior service of the company, as well with the district as on the ground.

The quartermaster-sergeant is then a warrant officer of elite and the body a fish pond for the choice of the Officier S.

After the reforms which follow the war of 1870, it becomes more difficult for them to reach the rank of officer taking into account the restrictions of age. With the reform of manpower within the Battalion S and the addition of a warrant officer, rank of Adjudant, by company, the quartermaster-sergeant is confined with purely administrative tasks.

He was not named any more of quartermaster-sergeant since 1964 and the rank was definitively removed in 1971.

Some old steel nibs: marshal General Bazaine, Husband, Henri Tonel. ---- A feather to be written current was called Sergent Major . It was named thus by patriotism after the war of 1870.

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