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Veteran’s Guard of Canada gold lanyard

Mr. Henderson’s notes:

A twisted gold and scarlet military lanyard represents the Veterans Guard of Canada dress format.  It looped around a shoulder and the small loop fastened under the flap of the chest button on the uniform.

Veteran's Guard of Canada gold lanyard (Henderson Homefront Collection)

Veteran’s Guard of Canada gold lanyard (Henderson Homefront Collection)

The red stripe on the German PoW uniform trousers

R.J. Henderson commented about the PoW uniforms worn by the German prisoners in Canada:

Note that the red trouser stripe (11cm. wide) was placed in the right trouser leg only.  As a joke, the PoW often compared themselves to German Generals, who also had a red stripe down their left leg in their dress uniform.