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26-01-16, 09:51 AM
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What is it officially?
Hi all
I have this (ID tag ) and I would like to know if anyone can tell me what it was for .I have been told it is a dogtag but i don't think it is as i did have one before with a group which had his dog tag and it was also ALH so were these only for LH guys?Any help or direction to a source of info would be great . Thanks 
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26-01-16, 11:24 AM
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I have seen something similar, although it was marked up for an American soldier.
I was told that there used to be machines that you could use in order to make your own identity disc etc. Found at fairs, carnivals, railway stations etc. I seem to remember one at London's Victoria Station when I was a kid, although that one produced a tag in strip format.
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26-01-16, 11:41 AM
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Official disc worn by the AIF at the start of WW1 was as per the metal disc for W Hunt of the Royal Sussex shown in this article. In the case of the AIF the next of kin details were marked on the reverse.
http://www.westernfrontassociation.c....tTqoblAB.dpbs From about November 1916 a red/green pair of fibre discs were worn by Empire, and later Commonwealth, forces. The 2AIF were still wearing these at the start of WW2, although they went over to the same shaped tags made of metal later in the war.
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