> On 25 Aug 2020, at 16:42, Alex Goodwin <xxxxxx@multitel.com.au> wrote:
> On 26/8/20 1:16 am, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk
>> (via tml list) wrote:
>> I can only aspire to the giddy heights of Sublieutenantness.  I'd have
>> probably been busted back to rating for mutiny.
>
> Second, from what little I understand, commissioned officers don't get
> dropped back to other ranks.

One caveat to that.

My understanding is that in the UK, a dishonourable discharge as an officer does not exempt you from being liable for conscription.

So if you weren’t to old or unfit, you could be conscripted as a private.

Phil Kitching