"Bitter Victory" being a movie, not history, Dick would have worn the lanyard any way he wanted. The idea of a lanyard is to prevent the non-shooter, inexperienced, usually junior, officers from losing their revolver(Just like the strings on one's mittens.) while on a horse. Being able to adjust the lanyard to add some stability, like a shoulder stock, was just a bonus.
Around one's neck doesn't add much, if any, stability, but the Junior Subalterns(mostly) would be less likely to drop the thing. Easier to put a lanyard around one's neck than undo your epaulet button, put your arm through and redo the button as well.
However, the side it was worn on had more to do with the Dress Regs than anything else. That and, at the time, one was expected to be right handed, even if you were not.Information
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