WW I GERMAN ISSUED IDENTIFICATION ID DOG TAG Erkennungsmarke M1878

Description

WW! GERMAN ISSUED IDENTIFICATION DOG TAGS
Original
Military Dog Tag
Model 1878
Prisoner identification tag, stamped
5.R.11
5.R (
5th Prussian Infantry Regiment
)
11 (11
digging soldiers
)
47 (
Soldier no
)
Private details of the owner 's address are engraved on the back.
Used
1915
metal zinc sheet
A souvenir from the battlefields at Bolimow
GAS BOLIMOW FIRST ATTACK
Erkennungsmarke M1878
The first identification tags were introduced in rectangle form in the 1860s to the Prussian Army but the familiar oval type date from 1878 and would change several times after 1915 to become basis of all German ID tags until today. Naturally the Schutztruppe in each colony also issued identification tags to both their native and European soldiers but this area of research is very neglected.
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