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    The United States Army's enlisted rank insignia that was used during World War I differs from the current system. The color scheme used for the insignia's chevron was olive drab for field use uniforms or one of several colors depending on the corps on dress uniforms. The chevron system used by enlisted men during World War I came into being on July 17, 1902, and was changed to a different system in 1919. Specification 760, which was dated May 31, 1905, contained 45 different enlisted insignia that varied designs and titles by different corps of the Army. General Order Number 169, which was enacted on August 14, 1907, created an even larger variety of enlisted rank insignia. Pay grades similar to the current system were not yet in use by the U.S. Army, and instead, the pay system reflected the job assignment of the soldier rather than their rank. By the end of World War I, the system contained 128 different insignia designs.


    Examples of pre war dress insignia




    Rank insignia used during the war


    The ranks used by the army during the war (1917-1918), by branch, were:


    = Cavalry

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    = Infantry

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    = Coast Artillery Corps

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    = Field Artillery

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    = Signal Corps

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    = Corps of Engineers

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    = Medical Department

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    = Ordnance Department

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    = Quartermaster Corps

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    = Air Service (Created May 24, 1918)

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    = Gas Service Created on July 5, 1917 then changed to Chemical Warfare Service on June 28, 1918

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    The organization of the Gas/Chemical Warfare service is based on a table in a report by the director of the service, Major General William Sibert to the Adjutant General of the Army, Dated September 26, 1918. One column of the table does show the service’s organization as of October 30, 1918, despite the date of the report.
    The complex enlisted organization starting in July 1918 is confirmed by War Department General Order 62, dated June 28, 1918, that states “The rank, pay, and allowances of the enlisted men of the Chemical Warfare Service, National Army, shall be the same as now authorized for the corresponding grades in the Corps of Engineers.”
    Insignia for the service was prescribed by Change No. 3 to Special Regulation 42 on February 19, 1918. Prior to that engineer insignia was probably used.


    = Tank Corps (Created in late 1917)

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    = Motor Transport Corps (Created August 15, 1918)

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    = Judge Advocate General’s Department (Enlisted Men Added July 12, 1918)

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    = Corps of Intelligence Police created August 13, 1917

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    As far as can be determined, the only enlisted men in the Corps of Intelligence Police were sergeants.


    = Corps of Interpreters Created July 14, 1917

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    As far as can be determined the only enlisted men in the Corps of Interpreters were sergeants


    = U.S.Military Academy Detachment

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    = Service School Detachments

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    Service school detachments wore the same insignia as other branches with privates first class using the same insignia as privates first class at West Point.


    = Other rank insignia

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    In 1918 the army added insignia for privates first class serving at army of corps headquarters and with the general recruiting service.

    Change number 4 to Special Regulation 42 dated May 7, 1918, prescribes insignia for the rank of motor sergeant. It, along with the insignia for chauffeurs is listed under general application for all branches. An article in the Army and Navy Register from July 4, 1918
    states that the rank of motor sergeant had been created under authority granted to the president to reorganize the army as needed during the war. The article goes on the state that there was a law before congress that would create the rank of motor sergeant in all branches and expand the chauffeur ranks also to all branches. This law did not pass.
    Various general orders from the American Expeditionary Force do show chauffeurs in various organizations, but as a rank, only in the Signal Corps. However the title of motor sergeant is never mentioned. Nor is it used in army order from the War Department itself. Assistant chauffeurs are listed on tables of organization as privates with duty as chauffeurs in division trains and various organizations in the Coast Artillery Corps.


    Order of Precedence


    Article III, paragraph 9 of the Regulations for Army of the United States 1913, Corrected to April 15, 1917, gives the order of precedence for officers and noncommissioned officers as:

    1. Lieutenant General
    2. Major General
    3. Brigadier General
    4. Colonel
    5. Lieutenant Colonel
    6. Major
    7. Captain
    8. First Lieutenant
    9. Second Lieutenant
    10. Aviator, Signal Corps
    11. Cadet
    12. (a) Sergeant Major, Regimental
    Sergeant Major, Senior Grade, Coast Artillery Corps
    12.(b) Quartermaster Sergeant, Senior Grade, Quartermaster Corps
    Master Hospital Sergeant, Medical Department
    Master Engineer Senior Grade, Corps of Engineers
    Master Electrician, Coast Artillery Corps
    Master Signal Electrician
    Band Leader
    12.(c) Hospital Sergeant, Medical Department
    Master Engineer Junior Grade, Corps of Engineers
    Engineer, Coast Artillery Corps
    13.Ordnance Sergeant
    Quartermaster Sergeant, Quartermaster Corps
    Supply Sergeant Regimental
    14. Sergeant Major, Squadron and Battalion
    Sergeant Major Junior Grade, Coast Artillery Corps
    Supply Sergeant, Battalion, Corps of Engineers
    15.(a) First Sergeant
    15.(b) Sergeant First Class, Medical Department
    Sergeant First Class, Quartermaster Corps
    Sergeant First Class, Corps of Engineers
    Sergeant First Class, Signal Corps
    Electrician Sergeant First Class, Coast Artillery Corps
    Electrician Sergeant, Artillery Detachment, United States Military Academy
    Assistant Engineer, Coast Artillery Corps
    Master Gunner, Coast Artillery Corps
    Master Gunner, Artillery Detachment, United States Military Academy
    Band Sergeant and Assistant Leader, United States Military Academy Band
    Assistant Band Leader
    Sergeant Bugler
    Electrician Sergeant Second Class, Coast Artillery Corps
    Electrician Sergeant Second Class, Artillery Detachment, United States Military Academy
    Radio Sergeant
    16.Color Sergeant
    17.Sergeant
    Supply Sergeant Company
    Mess Sergeant
    Stable Sergeant
    Fireman, Coast Artillery Corps
    18. Corporal


    See also


    Comparative officer ranks of World War II
    United States Army enlisted rank insignia
    United States Army enlisted rank insignia of World War II
    United States Army officer rank insignia
    United States Army uniforms in World War II


    References




    External links


    Roots Web World War I Army Rank Insignia Identification
    Roots Web World War I Uniforms
    Military Historians-Chevrons
    U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry-History of Enlisted Ranks
    Emerson, William K. (Winter 2004). "The Army's Last Set of Confusing Chevrons". Military Collector & Historian. 56 (4): 219–233. Retrieved 22 April 2019.

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