Brassards

"It was common for stretcher-bearers to remove the white brassards they wore, which made them easy targets for enemy marksmen." ❋ Victoria Janssen (2009)

This batch preferred white hoods to peace brassards, though. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There were no medics at 25,000 feet, no men wearing Red Cross brassards to rush to the aid of shot-up comrades. ❋ Donald L. Miller (2006)

At the junction with Marine Road he saw the why of that: a kind of a picket had formed, manned by respectable gentlemen of the Georgius Rex with brassards on their sleeves, and a couple Baden-Poweller boys in uniforms and hats. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

She stood very sternly, staring at the men and the women too with their Red Cross brassards. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

Then he removed the epaulets, brassards, and elbow pieces that covered his arms. ❋ Rabe, Jean (1997)

A band of men, in everyday subtropical garb but distinguished by scarlet brassards, tramped around a wooden stockade. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1985)

_At least_, thought Mike the Angel as he turned to look them over, _the brassards aren't in all lower-case italics_. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)

National Guards, besides a great quantity of tricoloured _brassards_. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Bourse round the new tricolour banner and a few gentlemen who wore tricolour _brassards_ or pretty bunches of tricolour riband, and whose general tidiness and freshness contrasted strikingly with the grimy, business-like look of the real soldiers close by. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Two army doctors, wearing the brassards of the Red Cross, themselves pillaged the house of Mme. Binder. ❋ Various (N/A)

Then we have brassards or arm-guards; the rere-brace for the upper arm, the vam-brace for the lower, and the elbow-piece called a "coudiere." ❋ Christopher Hare (N/A)

The first intimation of the Turk was the sight of a line of sparks from bombs being lit (the Turk then used brassards for lighting the fuses); then began quite a battle. ❋ F. L. Morrison (N/A)

Major ---- to wear brassards in prominent place, owing to dangerous journey in view! ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

A British officer, who was captured by the Germans and has since escaped, reports that while a prisoner he saw men who had been fighting subsequently put on Red Cross brassards. ❋ Various (N/A)

Stories of German treachery are abundant, and official reports have dealt with such shameful practises as driving prisoners and refugees in front of them when attacking, abusing the protection of the White Flag, and wearing Red Cross brassards in action. ❋ James Alexander Kilpatrick (N/A)