WW2 british identification tag

[Vincent]

Hi.

Does anyone ever seen a such british tag with inscriptions made with ink ? Why ?

Is it possible to know the year of enlistment of LBDR Young JH ?

Thanks for help. Vincent.

[leigh kitchen]

Might have been a blank that the man wrote his details on as a label to tie to a bag or repirator or another bit of kit?
Having said that, its got his religion on it.

[Peter Brydon]

I have this one written in ink and apart from being ( presumably ) National Fire Service, I know nothing about it.

P.B.

[Tigerlily]

Vincent there's a thread on WW2Talk re number allocation that might help a little.

http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/4837...k-allocations/

Alli

[leigh kitchen]

Under the 1920 numbering system this number would have fallen within the 1 - 294000 block for RASC.

[cavalryman]

Hi, According to Brian L Davis's WW2 book that number falls between 721,001-1,842,000 which is the numbers for ROYAL ARTILLERY Field branch Coast defence and Anti-Aircraft branch. regards john

[BWEF]

The lance bombardier probably lost his stamped disc and wrote that one out to tide him over until he got a replacement.

He should not have his unit on the disc, that defeats the object of the post 1920 numbers "blocks".

That being said, I know for a fact that the Germans had full details of the blocks anyway. Probably captured the information in France in 1940?

[Vincent]

Many thanks to all.

As written on tag, J H Young was a Lance bombardier, belonging to Royal Artillery.

Can we guess year of enlistment from an army number ?

Thanks

[Mike]

Here's the number series in table form:

http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/mm/...ce_numbers.htm

He's pre 1942 or he would have a number beginning 14?


if even amounts of numbers were being allocated each year then he would be about 1927, but WW2 will muck that up. But you could say he has a number allocated '1927-1942' (probably)

[Vincent]

Hi Mike. Army number is 1063655.

Identification tags and service numbers are really some interesting subjects and I'd like to find more infos.

Thanks again.

Vincent