. The custom of soldiers saluting by raising their hands dates back to tournaments of the Middle Ages.- Knights, when they rode past the Queen of Beauty, shielded their eyes by their hands as a sign that her beauty dazzled them. The movement gradually became a formal military salute.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1932, Page 11
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