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I edited the original article, having had a lot of personal experience of being on "Jankers" myself when I was in the British forces in 1950s and 60s. But regarding your question on the etymology of the vernacular term, I did not try to put that in, because I am just not sure and can not give a citation.
But I believe it was the term that arose from the sound of the noise from contact of your brasses on webbing and pack that you made when you had to proceed from your barrack room in "full marching order" to report for your punishment parade. Because in that period the word "jank" was used by some as a midway word between "clank" and "jangle" .i.e. "your repeatedly making or causing to make a ringing metallic sound, typically a discordant one". In a barrack room in very early morning 2 or 3 might be proceeding out of barrack room so referred to by the rest hearing them as "the jankers" men.
Another less likely possibility is that the word "jank" today means the same as "junk". So it was perhaps designated to describe service personnel, who had been put on a disciplinary charge thereby deemed "junk" status relative to the rest?
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