Editing Warrant officer (section)

====British Army====
[[File:Army-GBR-OR-09a.svg|thumb|left|100px|Arm badge of a [[Conductor (Army)|WO1 conductor RLC]] (British Army)]]
In the [[British Army]], there are two warrant ranks, warrant officer class two (WO2) and warrant officer class one (WO1), the latter being the senior of the two. These ranks were previously abbreviated as WOII and WOI (using Roman instead of Indo-Arabic numerals). "Warrant officer first class" or "second class" is incorrect. The rank immediately below WO2 is [[staff sergeant]] (or [[colour sergeant]]).<ref name="WarrantHistory"/> From 1938 to 1940 there was a WOIII [[platoon Sergeant Major|platoon sergeant major]] rank.<ref>{{cite book |page=272 |last=Banham |first=Tony |title=The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy |publisher=[[Hong Kong University Press]] |date=2006 |isbn=978-962-209-771-1 }}</ref>

In March 2015, the new appointment of [[Army Sergeant Major]] was created, though the holder is not in fact a warrant officer but a commissioned officer holding the rank of captain.<ref>{{cite news |title=Army |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/61742/supplement/3/data.pdf |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=[[The London Gazette]] |issue=22585 |date=25 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Royal Army Medical Corps |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/60765/supplement/1689/data.pdf |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=[[The London Gazette]] |date=28 January 2014}}</ref> The creation of the appointment of [[command sergeant major]] was announced in 2009.<ref>{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Bruce |title=CGS outlines new British Army senior posts amid culling of generals |work=[[Jane's Defence Weekly]] |date=1 February 2015 |url=http://www.janes.com/article/48536/cgs-outlines-new-british-army-senior-posts-amid-culling-of-generals }}</ref>