Pace Stick Presentation Award

A fully functioning Presentation Pace Stick. Ideal gift, complete with
case and engraving plate Rosewood Finish Brass Mounts 31cm tall

A Short History of Pace Sticking

“Stickus Pacium Romanus”

Roman Military Engineers used a pace-stick almost identical to the modern
British Army version, with the main difference being a length of rope in
place of the modern brass locking bar. When the Roman pace-stick was fully
open, the rope went taut and the stick was locked at an angle that measured
two Roman marching paces. When building roads, the Roman “sticker” would
turn his implement 500 times, which equated to 1 Roman Mile. A mile stone
would then be erected. This would be done for the entire length of the
road. The length of the modern day pace-sticking course is somewhat
shorter, but it is heartening to know that even if Rome wasn’t built in a
day, at least it was built with the aid of a pace-stick.

The Royal Regiment of Artillery lays claim to being the originator of the
pace-stick, using it to measure the correct distances between guns, limbers
and ammunition caissons. Sir John Moore, Father of the British “Light”
Infantry writes of the efficient use of pace-sticks” by the Sergeants, in a
training manual written in the early 1800s, around the time of the
Peninsular War.

In 1928, the late Academy Serjeant Major Arthur Brand developed a drill for
the pace-stick and promoted its use throughout the army.

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