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DOG TAGS through the years World War 2 & later |
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Pair
of compressed fibre, standard early WW2 issue, identity discs,
one round and one octagonal.
Both are impressed in obverse 'NX70937 J.K. GREER C.E.' and in the reverse 'O 4'. The round disc has a single hole punched through it and the octagonal disc two holes. Both are attached to a fine silver chain which is held together in two places with fine cotton thread. |
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brown leather identity disc on 600mm long fine steel chain.
Impressed obverse 'R J / REYNOLDS / TEL / PA 2957 / MOSS2A'.
Associated with PA2957 Wireless Telegraphist 1st Class, R J Reynolds, RAN. He enlisted 1942 and was posted to HMAS Melville, early in 1943. He subsequently served in HMAS Tolga (1943-1944) and HMAS Adelaide (1944). Reynolds was seconded, in 1944, to the Coastwatchers (later Australian Intelligence Bureau) as crew aboard HMAS HDML1321. This motor launch was allocated to Special Operations and operated in insertion, extraction and supply of Commando and GRD intelligence raiding parties. ML1321 also participated in the ill-fated Z Special Force raid to Mushu Island. |
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Guinea. 6 June 1944. Stainless steel identity discs have replaced
fibre discs which are unsuitable in New Guinea's climate. Private L.
Matthews of Belmore, NSW, his tools laid around him, stamps out the
steel discs for members of his unit, north of Alexishafen.
Note that he is using an axe head as his anvil.
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Stainless
steel; One octagonal and one circular stainless steel identity disc
on a fine rope necklace.
Both discs are impressed on the obverse 'NX108379 / CE / EAGAR / A', and on the reverse side '04'. Associated with NX108379 Gunner Austin Eagar, who served with the Royal Australian Artillery in WW2 |
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Range of dog tags issued to a Victorian AIF soldier |  |
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| Issued to Mrs A M Cuthbe, who was a British civilian internee of the Japanese in Changi Prison, and later at Syme Road, Singapore. Her husband, Mr Kenneth V Cuthbe, an engineer with the British colonial service in Malaya, was interned in the men's section of the prison. Both survived the war and later settled in Australia. | |
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WW2 Japanese infantry dog tag |
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Korean War disks |
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Identity discs worn by 2/400311 Private Thomas Henry John Hollis, of 3RAR, while he was a prisoner of war of the North Koreans and Chinese during the Korean War. The buttons on the thong are from Hollis's service dress jacket. He cut them off and kept them when he removed the uniform and sank it in the Yalu River to deny its use to the North Koreans. Hollis had served in the Second World War with 2/11 Australian Cavalry Commando Squadron and 66 Battalion, with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, and with 3RAR in Korea. He was captured in January 1951 and released on 9 August 1953. |
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Viet Nam era disks |
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| Photos of disks mostly larger than actual. Viet Nam era disks show actual size |
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