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Re: What uniform is this?
« Reply #18 on: Friday 11 July 08 21:12 BST (UK) »
Oooh sorry this got lost in the depths of my Rootschat answers!! :-[ :-[

That is most deffo a Royal Artillery badge, and yes, a white lanyard is usually seen on Gunners...

I won't regale you all again with the story of white lanyards and Gunners abandonment of guns....It upsets the ex RA lot  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

The uniform is the 1937 pattern with the 1937 Field Service Cap on his shoulder...
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Re: What uniform is this?
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 12 July 08 23:08 BST (UK) »
Thanks Scrimnett.
So Grampy Doug was in Royal Artillery? Thanks for all your help.
If you wish to regale me with the story of white lanyards I would be very interested (maybe by pm tho if it upsets ex RA's?)

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HARRIS - Mountain Ash, Hirwain, Merthyr
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Re: What uniform is this?
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 12 July 08 23:28 BST (UK) »
Caveat.....

The following story has been decreed apocryphal by Ex Gunners, and will be denied ad naseum...

But it's the story the infantry tell.... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

The white lanyard was awarded for cowardice in the field, as they abandoned their guns in the face of the enemy...And as the RA's guns are their colours, they   were in big do do...They are the Queens (Kings) colours and as such have been blessed by the sovereign...Ergo the cowardice... ;)
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.
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