Lanyards- which side is battle honour/dishonour?

[STA Gunner]

Regarding artillery lanyards being white:  when I was in the UK the Master Gunner of the School commented that the white stems from the fact that the lanyards were made from the ropes from ships, which were bleached white by salt and sun.  I have no reference, just an RSMs comment.

I know of an instance where instead of a dishonour being awarded, an honour was withdrawn.

A Bty, 1 RCHA has the honour of carrying the RCR crest on its guns signifying the close bond by fire that the battery had with the regiment in Korea.  The crest was to be on the guns unless the battery accidentally dropped rounds on the Royals.  Unfortunately, some time later the battery did.  The crests were removed.  Later on, the honour was once again bestowed upon A Bty.

I am unsure if it is listed in Nocholson's Gunners of Canada, but the original correspondance from the RCHA to the RCR and back is Regimental NPP in Shilo, and is a good read.

 

[Highland Laddie]

The Black Watch spat is demonstrably different from that worn by every other regiment - I've seen them.   They have a notch cut where no other unit does.   (Though some Cameron Highlanders in Winnipeg seem to have gotten Black Watch spats after the reg force battalions stood down and they were dispersing the kit).    I have not seen an explanation for this anomaly, but it does in fact exist.   Don't know when the pattern changed, but it is not a simple manufacturer's variant.

Happy to say those spats are long gone, if we ever had them to begin with. Sure it wasn't our ''pretender' cousins, the Camerons of O? Many of them walk around with "Cameron" slip ons, etc only to be jacked by us when we see them.

 

[Brad Sallows]

I just love the "badge of shame" stories.  Can you imagine trying to enforce that?  You'd hear every variation of "sod off" known to man.

My guess is that soldiers just like to try to get under each other's skins by starting rumours that the "other unit's" regimental quiff is a badge of shame.

 

[JackCyr]

Just a comment to say, that not only Infantry or Artilary Regiments wore a Lanyard.  I was in the Army back in the 1960's before Unificatiowhere I initially served with the Service Corps (R.C.A.S.C.) before transfering to an Infantry unit, and we wore a regimental colored Lanyard on the left shoulder.

At that time, the 2nd Regiment of the Van Doos wore their Lanyard on the right shoulder, under what we were told at the time was a 99 year dishonour for abandoning their positions back in WW1.
This is what we were told and I do not claim it as Gospel.

 

[Yrys]

At that time, the 2nd Regiment of the Van Doos wore their Lanyard on the right shoulder, under what we were told at the time was a 99 year dishonour for abandoning their positions back in WW1.
This is what we were told and I do not claim it as Gospel.

W  W,
I wonder if it's truth that they've gone out of their post ...

Not if Dorosh was right ...
Lanyards- which side is battle honour/dishonour?

 

[Michael OLeary]

Wearing of a lanyard as a sign of dishonour is nothing more than a MYTH.  Unless someone can actually provide you a specific event, date, war, and the General Order for wearing of the lanyard, its a bullshit story only invented to cast aspersions on the other unit/regiment/corps.  You can be certain if there was any validity to such a story, then someone would have the details and they would be well known.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Thank you Michael.

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