Corporal Punishment Whip or?
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Khukri
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Hello,
1. This looks a modern fabric/stitching to me ! A torn off strap of a kit-bag or backpack....
2. Flogging was abolished in the British Army in 1881.
This is a link to an article on "Field Punishment Number One".
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3.In Kürassier Arthur Brühe's (Kü Regt "Königin" Nr 2-3rd Eskadron/Schwadron) manuscript "Von Aachen bis Haelen" I found a similar type of punishment in the German Imperial Army in 1914.
(Just after crossing the river Meuse-August 1914)
(This manuscript was the "trigger" for the book Joe, Janet and I worked on).
A brief translation on the punishment for not obeying the Commanding Officers orders.
We rode swift and rode
And advanced well;
Hunger and thirst we suffered,
Supplies would often not reach us.
On one very hot day-
Dust blown over the field-
To quench the plague of thirst
In the village the good people
For us, to drink;
The women, waving beakers.
But denied to us by
The Schwadronschef von Sichart,
That we would refresh ourselves-
We sensed this to be hard.
Later we were told,
The Ritter locked up Behnke,
Because he laughed about the order
And drank, alone.
We thought of it as nonsense,
Where to carry out three days of field punishment?
Later he stood for three hours
Guarded and tied to a tree;
Think they thought to raise our fighting spirit that way!
Francis
1. This looks a modern fabric/stitching to me ! A torn off strap of a kit-bag or backpack....
2. Flogging was abolished in the British Army in 1881.
This is a link to an article on "Field Punishment Number One".
http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWfield.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
3.In Kürassier Arthur Brühe's (Kü Regt "Königin" Nr 2-3rd Eskadron/Schwadron) manuscript "Von Aachen bis Haelen" I found a similar type of punishment in the German Imperial Army in 1914.
(Just after crossing the river Meuse-August 1914)
(This manuscript was the "trigger" for the book Joe, Janet and I worked on).
A brief translation on the punishment for not obeying the Commanding Officers orders.
We rode swift and rode
And advanced well;
Hunger and thirst we suffered,
Supplies would often not reach us.
On one very hot day-
Dust blown over the field-
To quench the plague of thirst
In the village the good people
For us, to drink;
The women, waving beakers.
But denied to us by
The Schwadronschef von Sichart,
That we would refresh ourselves-
We sensed this to be hard.
Later we were told,
The Ritter locked up Behnke,
Because he laughed about the order
And drank, alone.
We thought of it as nonsense,
Where to carry out three days of field punishment?
Later he stood for three hours
Guarded and tied to a tree;
Think they thought to raise our fighting spirit that way!
Francis
