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Subiaco Museum > Records

IDENTIDY TAGS: WORLD WAR TWO, PETER L. DAVENTRY

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c. 1940

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Military and Wartime Collection

Overview

Two aluminum tags attached to a cotton cord.
CORD: light brown, 96 cm, folded in the middle, knotted, aluminum tags attached at different lengths.
TAGS.
a) aluminium disc, round, with the notation: 'WX 18182 - Daventry - P.L. - C. of E. - 0.4'
b) aluminum tag, octagonal, with the same lettering, tied eight centimetres up from round end piece.

Historical information

Identity tags worn during World War II.

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cwa-org-43-1987.9a-b

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Keywords

Photographed 2023

Year

Statement of significance

War history. Identity tags worn by servicemen.

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