Note 391 — Chapter XIV · ARMY REFORM, 1871-1885.

Colonel Clifford Walton, C.B., History of the British Standing Army , A.D. 1660-1700, pp. 441, etc. (London, 1894). The reader should remember that a form of the double rank still exists in every regiment of the service; the Colonel of each being either a General Officer or a Field-Marshal. Further on in this chapter it will be seen, moreover, that the double rank was practically revived in the infantry in 1881, when it suited Government to do so to serve their own purposes.purposes.