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navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Military_ranks" title="Template:Military ranks"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Military_ranks" title="Template talk:Military ranks"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Military_ranks" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Military ranks"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bombardier</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ɪər/: 'ear' in 'near'">ɪər</span></span>/</a></span></span>) is a military rank that has existed since the 16th century in <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a> regiments of various armies, such as in the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Prussian_Army" title="Prussian Army">Prussian Army</a>. Traditionally the bombardier tended the vents at the top of breeches, handled the final assembly of ammunition and placed the ammunition in the muzzles for the gunners to fire.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is today equivalent to the rank of <a href="/wiki/Corporal" title="Corporal">corporal</a> in other branches.<sup id="cite_ref-ox_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ox-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rank of lance bombardier is the artillery counterpart of <a href="/wiki/Lance_corporal" title="Lance corporal">lance corporal</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bombardier_Duncan_Bromwich.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Bombardier_Duncan_Bromwich.jpg/150px-Bombardier_Duncan_Bromwich.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="246" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Bombardier_Duncan_Bromwich.jpg/225px-Bombardier_Duncan_Bromwich.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Bombardier_Duncan_Bromwich.jpg/300px-Bombardier_Duncan_Bromwich.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3594" data-file-height="5883" /></a><figcaption>Bombardier Duncan Bromwich of Leyton, England (1893–1917) in his Royal Field Artillery Bombardier uniform.</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commonwealth_armies">Commonwealth armies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bombardier_(rank)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Commonwealth armies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bombardier (Bdr) and lance bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are used by the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery" title="Royal Artillery">Royal Artillery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="Royal Horse Artillery">Royal Horse Artillery</a>. The same applies to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Artillery" title="Royal Australian Artillery">Royal Australian Artillery</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_New_Zealand_Artillery" title="Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery">Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery</a>, the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Army_Artillery_Formation" title="South African Army Artillery Formation">South African Army Artillery Formation</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Malta" title="Armed Forces of Malta">Armed Forces of Malta</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Canadian_Artillery" title="Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery">Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery</a> uses the ranks of master bombardier and bombardier, corresponding to <a href="/wiki/Master_corporal" title="Master corporal">master corporal</a> and corporal. </p><p>Originally, the Royal Artillery had corporals, but not lance corporals. Unlike a lance corporal, a bombardier, who was junior to a corporal, held full non-commissioned rank and not an acting appointment. The rank was equivalent to <a href="/wiki/Second_corporal" title="Second corporal">second corporal</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Engineers" title="Royal Engineers">Royal Engineers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Army_Ordnance_Corps" title="Royal Army Ordnance Corps">Army Ordnance Corps</a>. </p><p>In 1920 corporals were abolished in the Royal Artillery; bombardiers became the equivalent and acquired the normal two chevrons. </p><p>The rank of lance bombardier originated as acting bombardier, an appointment similar to lance corporal and also indicated by a single chevron. The appointment was renamed lance bombardier in February 1918. 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