CKB Ltd 50 x White Lanyard Neck Strap for ID Card/Mobile Phone/Gym Key/Access Pass Holder Loop Clip

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On WW1 mobilisation all soldiers, infantry included, were issued with a lanyard for the clasp knife. And some 1840 cavalry pistols with ....oh look, lanyard loops, at http://www.elalcazar.com/items/157116/item157116store.html

I even remember one or two of the lads having clasp knives attached, while with the King's Troop RHA and RHA units if my memory serves me correctly. Post WW1 the lanyard was moved from the left to the right shoulder and became more or less a decorative item and later still, in various colours and combinations,used to indicate regiment, battalion, Brigade, Corps etc. It would guarantee that no one would ever join it! And since no such evidence exists, your storys falls flat on their face. One might even ask why other arms and corps wear lanyards? Now as an ex Cavalryman I found that as a lot of bull and looked for the answer but was down to the PK and the spike which was used to clean the horses hoofs and that was why the soldier tied it to a lanyard.

Full Color personalize Lanyards with your name company, school logo, business name Custom printed on lanyards, Keys & id holder It may surprise many readers that this particular piece if leg-pulling is repeated in various forms. The gold stripe in the Gunner stable belt stems from the colours of the uniform at the time the stable belt was introduced. It was not a question, as the jokers would have it, of yellow stripes for cowardice! Ian - it does seem that very often the No 1 on the Lewis Gun wore a lanyard; but there are units where there were no Lewis Guns, and and still these are worn - so it is not clear cut. I still don't think they are the same colour. They have different NSNs, according to these badge spotters. Note "dark blue" for the RE and "blue" for the Royal Signals.

Well in 1884 the cord attached to an officer's pistol was called a lanyard and that came directly from the cord attached to the sword, so I don't see why it should have changed it's name too much. As far as I can see the word 'lanyard' comes from the naval term for an attachment to a line or rigging and that dates long before Napolionic times. And even an acount of a US gun being prepared to fire with the use of a lanyard in 1862 here http://www.civilwarhome.com/munfordantietamor.htm In the war years that followed, the lanyard could be used as an emergency firing lanyard for those guns which had a trigger firing mechanism, allowing the gunner to stand clear of the guns recoil. Use on personal social media accounts, provided the individuals are not promoting themselves commercially. As an ex-army type, I had a lanyard attached to my No.1 and No.2 uniforms. I never gave them much thought, though having a white one, as an artilleryman, they were a bu**er to keep clean.Non-Commercial educational use for the purpose of teaching and instruction, including internal training. Apart from that if you look at historical pictures of uniforms of the napolionic era there are lanyards all over the shop!

There has long been a tale about Gunners wearing a white lanyard for cowardice, allegedly for deserting their guns. Of course, this story is nothing more than a piece of leg pulling; the information that follows is historical facts. As an ex-RHA/29RA type, I am rather pleased to hear this.........I will be forwarding this to my brother, an ex-36 RE type. He thinks it great fun to 'pull my leg' about his Corps being 'given' the original blue lanyard of the RA after they abandoned their 25 Pounders in the Western Desert. Engraved Stethoscope ID Tag,Custom Leather Stethoscope ID Tag,Stethoscope Charm, Personalized Stethoscope Name Tag,Nurse Graduation Gift It used to be said, if I remember my days in the JTC, that gunners wore them as a spare should the one that fired the gun break. That seemed unlikely and in those days (40's and 50's) of battledress iI think they were merely ornaments. Many regiments and corps had coloured lanyards. IIRC the lanyard worn by French soldiers was green (and red) for soldiers who belonged to a regiment, which as a whole had received the Croix de Guerre, and red for soldiers, whose regiment had received the Légion d'Honneur.

We have over a million object records online, and we are adding to this all the time. Our records are never finished. Sometimes we discover new information that changes what we know about an object, such as who made it or used it. Sometimes we change how an object is interpreted. We sometimes make mistakes in our spelling, transcription or categorisation, or miss information out of our records. In the war years that followed, the lanyard could be used as an emergency firing lanyard forthose guns which had a trigger mechanism, allowing the gunner to stand clear of the gun's recoil. Heres a generic officers lanyard, probably attached to a pistol, from 1918 and a number of other lanyards from my collection all post WW1, feel free to identify. So maybe its a bad thing fleeing from the guns whilst under fire, but surrending whilst in an Army camp needs a little more explaning.

Scalies of all flavours carry/carried these implements when line laying & repairing and it may have been unauthorised but functional initially until tradition took over. NSN: 8465-99-975-7476 - Link type. Three ply. Dark blue. Length 84cm. Diameter/Width 1.2cm. Link 43cm. Loop Knot 41cm. Royal Engineers. Queens Gurkha Engineers. It was also issued to Regiments who had at some time saved guns after the crews were killed etc, they rescued the guns and carried on firing them. There were two infantry regiments whose officers wore coloured lanyards in Service Dress before the Great War:

The links I posted related to lanyards being used on friction fuses some sixty years before your post says that lanyards became a form of dress.