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Description: | Incomplete upper half of a German second world war dog tag. The tag is flat, crescentric and has two holes at the curved edge. There are two tabs of metal protruding from the straight edge, which originally would have attached to the opposing crescentric side.One surface of the tag is stamped with the owners details. The top line reads ]6664, which is the soldiers personel number. The bottom line reads: ]p Ld Schutz Ers Batl 13(?4). The letter 'p' at the far right next to the break would have been the last letter of the abbreviated word 'Komp[anie]', and so in full the inscription reads Kompanie Landeschutz Ersatz Bataillon.The upper part of the dog tag, or "erkennungsmarke" (literally ~ indentity tag) was normally buried with the soldier, whilst the lower was sent back to the records office. Another German identity tag and an infantry badge were also found in the same field (recorded on the PAS database as LIN-CE1D45 and LIN-CE8D25. An image of the former tag was sent to the Deutsche Deinststelle, who wrote back to say that the wearer of the Erkennunsmarke reappeared in Germany in 1956, proving that despite being the upper portion, the tag was not part of a burial. There is the remains of a POW camp at Wellingore, Lincolnshire, and it is likely that this is where the owners was presumably held immediately after the war.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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