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Post by irlamspud on Oct 14, 2009 5:36:04 GMT -5
Can anyone confirm if my memory is correct in that the Lanyard was dark blue and plaitted 1965>
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Post by xbigtrux on Nov 16, 2009 7:14:47 GMT -5
You are dead right about the change of lanyard. It changed to the plaited dark blue at the same time of the badge change from RASC to RCT.
At the same time the whole thing went to pot!
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Post by bradbury639 on Sept 10, 2011 12:50:06 GMT -5
Yes, it was changed. We were lumbered with the Royal Engineers one. Not only did we lose the rank of 'Driver' but I lost my brass RASC cap badge to a souvenier hungry CSM who confiscated it because it was polished almost flat! Ah! such fond memories!
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Post by derek pettman on Dec 18, 2011 19:53:02 GMT -5
re lanyard it was still blue/yellow when i left service in 1967.
i joined rasc in 58 was at on staff at sandhurst when corps became rct badges changed but lanyard stayed the same
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Post by Steve Homer on Feb 27, 2014 16:10:41 GMT -5
xbigtrux why do you say every thing went to pot when the RASC split into RCT, ACC, RAOC etc., I served in the RCT from 76 to 83 and I always found it worked well?
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Post by Pete Wakefield on May 11, 2014 7:44:13 GMT -5
I was in RCT from 71 to 83 can not remember what year but we had to remove the lanyard it was about 1975/76 were told we were no longer entitled to wear it?
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Post by Dave Lacy on Aug 11, 2015 7:15:20 GMT -5
i Joined RCT in 83, and I had a dark blue lanyard till the day we changed to RLC, and we didnt loose the rank of Driver till 92
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Post by Geordie boy on Nov 18, 2015 16:39:25 GMT -5
The lanyard was indeed dark blue but I was in Horse Transport section at Beaumont Barracks,Aldershot and we wore the Royal Artillary white lanyard on the opposite side to the blue one.apparently it was because in some years gone by,the horses belonging to the then transport company,pulled the artillery guns from the front line because the Royal Artillary horses couldn't do it for some reason.We were then allowed to wear the white lanyard,instead of the blue.I served with H Sqn.R.C.T. Horse Transport from 1967-70.when it was disbanded.
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Post by Peter O'Connor on May 13, 2016 16:32:24 GMT -5
Hey Geordie Boy - you weren't the one who tried to chat up Princess Anne at the Hampshire horse show, were you?
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Post by JDVR MFR on Nov 10, 2023 18:19:45 GMT -5
We were always told JLR 1986/87 Colerne that blue lanyard was because RA dropped short on our troops so we got theirs and they got WHITE?
BUT my Great Grandfather was ASC during WWI and has a clearly white lanyard?
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