{"id":3480,"date":"2016-11-03T19:38:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/why-did-the-british-and-other-euro-armies-typically-wear-holsters-on-the-left\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:26:02","slug":"why-did-the-british-and-other-euro-armies-typically-wear-holsters-on-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/why-did-the-british-and-other-euro-armies-typically-wear-holsters-on-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did the British and other Euro Armies typically wear holsters on the left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O-NzgFGWJDw?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Later note: this vid is overly simplistic. The one at the link is more specific and better, dealing with Brits in WW1 specifically: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8C-ODI8y4gs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8C-ODI8y4gs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another Unexpected Video, The Bloke takes a look at the whys and wherefores of that peculiar (but not universal) old habit of wearing a pistol holster on the left that infested not only the Continentals, but also the British Army in the WW1-WW2 period and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Being The Bloke, he of course gets a little dressed up to do it. He just can&#8217;t quite resist. May also contain traces of contortionism.<\/p>\n<p>Such things might be at least vaguely interesting what with the release of Battlefield 1 and all that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Like our FB page! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later note: this vid is overly simplistic. The one at the link is more specific and better, dealing with Brits in WW1 specifically: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8C-ODI8y4gs In another Unexpected Video, The Bloke takes a look at the whys and wherefores of that peculiar (but not universal) old habit of wearing a pistol holster on the left that&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/why-did-the-british-and-other-euro-armies-typically-wear-holsters-on-the-left\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why did the British and other Euro Armies typically wear holsters on the left?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15121,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/15121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}