Being an officer I don't expect he noticed! Reminds me of a story I heard once when a senior Officers batman was scrubbing and blancoing his old 37 pattern webbing. So that the beautifully blancoed webbing didn't crack and craze when said Offr put it on, batman stuffed the holster out with old newspaper etc etc to fill it out.

When he went back to the Offrs room, he found the webbing gone...... with his newly blancoed and assembled webbing. And the pistol was still in his drawer where said batman had left it while webbing dried out fully after assembly. It turns out that Brigadier XXXXX-XXX had addressed the troops, inspected the guard, had drinks with the Inspecting Officer all while wearing a holster full of crinkled up newspaper!

So said, he got back to his room, pixxxd as a hand-cart, took his stuff off and fell asleep on his bed, none the wiser!