GOLD CORD A WAR PERIL.

Mataura Ensign, 9 November 1916, Page 5

GOLD CORD A WAR PERIL.

I One of the earliest lesions of the war ' was thai of the danger to officers in allowiiiL' them to wear badges of then ■rank gold cord around their coat sleeves "".'old decorations on their hoad- | .'ear, etc.. which, marked them ou t . U S The enemv's picked shots 'and resulted in unnecessary and avoidable losso anion.' them. This lesson was leai net i and now it has become so dilficult at I the front to identify an olficer that : ! failure to salute i„ overlooked on the '; ground. j It seems, however, that there is ; Idaiver of tlds being revived by tin ' I re-idtions making the wearing ol chey "I roits obligatory. These chevrons are u v the nature of an inverted \ and ar. • worn on the right arm between tin 1 elbow and shoulder io denote that thi '" wearer has been wounded, and on th. ■ left to show the. length of time ho ha ' been at the front, one showing one yea v of active service, two lor IS months 1 Thev are worn in all sorts of materia 1 iln< l" colors, officers wearing them u " "old and silver. When worn on eav " or <luriii<' convalescence their visi.bi it, <~l is a "ood po : nt. but at the iront th--1 draw"u|>on their wearers ihe same dan r ~,.r that badges of rank formerly di<l.