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Old 24-10-05, 15:17
Richard Hughes Richard Hughes is offline
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Having previously served in the pioneers I can confirm the reason. It is because traditionally Pioneer sergeants are supposed to light the fuze of the bomb and the hair of the beard is supposed to be the emergency fuze. I don't know how well it worked but things must have been pretty desperate to pull hair from your beard to light a bomb.

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