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Glossary - O
Order of Battle - An Order of Battle
is a listing of units assigned to a formation, command, district or other
organization. It can also refer to a listing of personnel within a unit or
sub-unit. The abbreviation Orbat was regularly used in the latter
half of the 20th Century. In the first half of the century the term War
Establishment was used to refer to a listing of which personnel and
equipment a unit was entitled to.
Order of Precedence - various governing
institutions in Canada have a "nominal and symbolic hierarchy" which
assists in dictating ceremonial protocol.1 The federal and
provincial goverments maintain tables of precedence which determine
such things as seating arrangements where order of seniority is
considered important. Likewise, the Canadian Armed Forces organize
personnel in a hierarchy. Regiments, corps and branches, and individual
units therein, are assigned a ranking according to seniority and
tradition. The Royal Navy, for example, is considered senior to the
British Army. The Royal Canadian Navy, which was formed many years after
the Canadian Militia, also enjoys seniority in the Canadian Forces to
conform to British tradition. In the Army, all armoured regiments
are ranked as senior to infantry regiments because of a conscious
decision to apply cavalry traditions to the armoured corps. Within each
corps and branch, units are ranked according to date of formation. Many
lists therefore list units out of alphabetical order, and instead by
order of precedence.
Notes
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From the definition
given in Protocol for Life: Guidelines on Diplomatic, Official
and Social Manners (Obisakin, Lawrence Olufemi, Goold Books,
2007) accessed online at
https://books.google.ca/books?id=-Vq4ARYT6SIC&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234
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