{{Short description|Military rank or appointment}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=September 2014}} '''Staff sergeant major'''<ref>Note that in the British Army, the plural is "staff sergeant majors" and not "staff sergeants major". {{London Gazette |issue=48587 |date=16 April 1981 |page=5671 |supp=y }} {{London Gazette |issue=25044 |date=2 December 1881 |page=6467 }} The earliest usage of "sergeant majors" in ''[[The Times]]'' is in 1822. The last of the (very occasional) usages of "sergeants major", except when referring to American NCOs, is in 1938.</ref> is an appointment in some [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] armies and also a rank in the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]].
==Canada== Staff sergeant major is a [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] (RCMP) rank above [[staff sergeant]] but junior to [[sergeant major]].
==Israel== Staff Sergeant Major is an [[Israel Police]] and [[Israel Border Police]] (Magav) rank junior to Advanced Staff Sergeant Major.
==United Kingdom== Staff sergeant major (SSM) is an appointment in the [[British Army]] held by [[warrant officer (United Kingdom)|warrant officers class 1]] in the [[Royal Logistic Corps]] who are not [[Conductor (British Army)|conductors]] or [[regimental sergeant major]]s.
Staff sergeant majors existed in the [[Royal Army Service Corps|Army Service Corps]] and [[Royal Army Ordnance Corps|Ordnance Store Branch]] in the 19th century. In 1896, however, staff sergeant majors in the new [[Royal Army Ordnance Corps|Army Ordnance Corps]] were renamed [[sub-conductor]]s (becoming staff sergeant majors again in 1967). Staff sergeant majors remained in the Army Service Corps, later the Royal Army Service Corps, and continued when it became the [[Royal Corps of Transport]] in 1965. The appointment passed to the new Royal Logistic Corps in 1993.
In 1892, conductors of supplies in the Army Service Corps were renamed staff sergeant majors 1st class. Like the conductors, they wore their royal arms rank badge in a wreath. The appointment has now been abolished.
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