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Cloth worker joins navy, perhaps, becoming NCO?
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colour sergeant
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n. (context British English) A non-commissioned officer in some infantry regiment of the British army, equivalent in rank to a staff sergeant in most other armies. A colour sergeant ranks above a sergeant and below a warrant officer.
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Colour sergeant or color sergeant ( CSgt or C/Sgt ) is a rank of non-commissioned officer found in several militaries.
Usage examples of colour sergeant.
Sepoys were at drill, groups of fellows in vests and overalls were boiling their billies on the section fires, the long tent-lines and ruined mosques drowsed in the heat, the bugles sounded in the distance, the reek of native cooking wafted down from the host of camp-followers, fifty thousand of them, camped beyond the artillery park, somewhere a colour sergeant was waking the echoes, and a red-haired ruffian with a black eye was tied to a gun-wheel for field punishment, exchanging genial abuse with his mates.
The story rests on the sergeant's authority, and there seems no reason to doubt him, or Flashman - or for that matter, Doyle's poem, which only errs (possibly deliberately) in presenting Moyes as a young Kentish country boy, when in fact he was a fairly disreputable Scot, old enough, it is said, to have been broken from the rank of colour sergeant for insubordination - which seems characteristic.
He's a hard citizen, an old colour sergeant of the war, all scars and grizzle.