Cruise Lanyard - keep your key card handy with these colorful lanyard. Adjustable with metal clasp. Includes clear plastic card holder 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. In recent times perhaps but in a WW1 front line situation I suspect they were used to anchor all sorts of things. I've certainly seen WW1 illustrations of officers blowing whistles attached to lanyards 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. 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.

I can see what you mean though. I would class myself as an infantry signaller and I always had a clasp knife and a leatherman/Gerber on me all the time. Especially when dealing with line. And even then you cant look after them, you must remember the medic who had his SA80 removed from his possesion whilst travelling the 100 yds from central lines guard room to the front gate. 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.

A bit of leg pulling? You'll be accusing us of friendly rivalry next. I am quite happy to believe the yellow stripe, white lanyard and 2 bombs missing stories - even if they are apocryphal. 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. Use on personal social media accounts, provided the individuals are not promoting themselves commercially. 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.

I'm looking at buying a 1916 whistle with a chain and button hook attached. I suppose this was a "belt & braces" solution to avoid any breakages and loss of the whistle. There is an interesting story regarding the humble lanyard and the 216 Parachute Signal Squadron. Following the Normandy landings by the 6th Airborne Divisional Signals on 6th June 1944, the commanding officer Lt. Col. 'Pygmy' Smallman-Tew encouraged each man to plait himself a lanyard from the camouflaged rigging lines from the parachutes still scattered over the DZ. The object of this was that every man would have a length of strong cord which might be useful should he be involved in any attempt to escape capture by the enemy. All the men followed his instruction and wore the lanyard. Some weeks after the landings the Lt.Col. was killed by a German mortar. The lanyard continued to be worn in respect of the extremely popular officer.Custom Boatswains Mate Pipe Lanyard Navy Coast Guard Military Retirement Change of Command Bosun Bosn XXL Customized Phone Lanyard, Rubber Coated Acrylic Phone Strap - Universal for all iPhone models, Android phones, iPhones and others.

Deluxe Fabric Lanyard | DOUBLE Breakaway Clasp | Plant Lover | Teacher Lanyard for classroom ID holder | Soft fabric strap lanyard 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. There is a difference between lanyards used for ceremonial purposes and working, the lanyards I see in pictures of WW1 in the trenches are working lanyards and in many instances consist of nothing more than a length of string with the knife or whistle attached, they certainly aren't Regiment, Bn or Corps identifiers (with the exception of perhaps RA) .Another link, shows a 1913 dictionary definition of an artillery lanyard being twelve feet long with a handle at one end and a hook on the other. Non Ferrous Paracord ID Lanyard MRI Safe Non-Ferrous Plastic Clip and Safety Breakaway Clasp ID Name Tag Badge Holder Custom Acrylic Car-Shaped Keychains. Show off your love of cars with our unique designs. Perfect for car enthusiasts & gifts! And some 1840 cavalry pistols with ....oh look, lanyard loops, at http://www.elalcazar.com/items/157116/item157116store.html

Harry Styles Keychain | watermelon sugar Harry's House Keychain | Harry Styles Gift | Harry Styles Accessories | TPWK one direction My question is....What were the original uses for lanyards?.....Where and when did they come into use?.......Are they purely ceremonial today? Pearl Shell Beaded Phone Strap, golden shell pearl phone charm, Beaded Phone Strap, iphone strap, android strap, Y2K | Conchita Phone Strap 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?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. 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