Originally referred to a reliable veteran called the capo de'squadra or head of the square. The title changed to caporale by the Sixteenth Century and meant the leader of a small body of soldiers. The French picked up the term in about the Sixteenth Century and pronounced it in various ways, one of them being corporal, which indicates a mixing with the Latin word corpus or French corps (body). The British adopted corporal in the Seventeenth or Eighteenth Century and it has been a part of the army ever since. The British gave the Corporal his two stripes when they started using chevrons in 1803.
Corporal
Corporal Walter Albert Alford
Corporal William Hart
Corporal George Clarke
Corporal George Charles Wood
Corporal Frederick Harry Shackleton
Corporal Horace Stanley Lowin
Corporal Harry Meeds
Corporal Lionel Burt Evans
Corporal George Thomas Hunt
Corporal Frederick Chance
Corporal Arthur Ward
Corporal Charles George Marsh
Corporal Thomas Henry Lodge
Corporal Ernest Walter Brooks
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