the discs proposed in June 1915 were rectangular in shape, approximately 7cm by 5.5cm in size and contained the same detail as the 1878 disc but with the addition of the soldiers name. Never actually on official issue, a large number of these discs were manufactured and trialled, however, mainly seeing service on the Eastern Front. ) So if the government had spent just a small amount of money 100 years ago, and issued our troops with metal tags, then perhaps monuments like Thiepval and the Menin Gate would not be so large and although a generation may still have been lost, they would have the proper burial that was ultimately denied them. Issues a single metal oval, worn vertically, stamped " ESPAÑA" above and below the 3-slot horizontal break line. It is stamped in 4 lines with:

By having a small disc with name, number and regiment stamped on it, means that you can use that information to look for a medal index card or a service record. In the case of the photograph of the artillery corporal from my previous blogpost in this series, you can now add the name, number and regiment and start looking for more information.This article is about identification tags worn by military personnel. For the version worn by pets, see pet tag. For other uses, see Dog tag (disambiguation). Cf. Instruktion über das Sanitätswesen der Armee im Felde of 29 April 1869, Berlin: Mittler, 1869, article (§) 110. No ISBN. The Hungarian army dog tag is made out of steel, forming a 25×35mm tag designed to split diagonally. Both sides contain the same information: the soldier's personal identity code, blood group and the word HUNGARIA. Some may not have the blood group on them. These are only issued to soldiers who are serving outside of the country. If the soldier should die, one side is removed and kept for the army's official records, while the other side is left attached to the body. Commemorate your grandfather, father, or other veteran family members who served in the military with a recreation set of replica Dog Tags to match their originals. Military Family Dogtags Swiss Armed Forces ID tag is an oval shaped non reflective plaque, containing the following information:

The two tags show the following: number (151507), initials (W R), surname (Ward) regiment (RGA – Royal Garrison Artillery) and religion (Baptist). Image courtesy of William Spencer. Tags are properly known as identification tags; the term "dog tags" has never been used in regulations. [31] Estonian dog tags are designed to be broken in two. The dog tag is a metallic rounded rectangle suspended by a ball chain. Information consists of four fields: Whenever I am conducting a battlefield tour and visit one of the many cemeteries on the Western Front with a high proportion of unknown graves, I am inevitably asked if the soldiers were wearing any identification in the form of dog tags and, if so, when were the tags invented and first used. In more recent times, dog tags were provided to Chinese soldiers as early as the mid-19th century. During the Taiping revolt (1851–66), both the Imperialists (i.e., the Chinese Imperial Army regular servicemen) and those Taiping rebels wearing a uniform wore wooden dog tags at the belt, bearing the soldier's name, age, birthplace, unit, and date of enlistment. [4] American Civil War [ edit ]

Following the German-Danish War, a Berlin master-craftsman proposed the issue of a “Hundesmarke” (literally “Dog tag”) named after the existing dog-tax tag but this was all but rejected by the Prussian War Ministry (and also gave birth to the story of Koenig Wilhelm flying into a rage about the unsubtle naming of the tag (“my soldiers are not dogs!”). Whether or not this is true, the name “Hundesmarke” was certainly forbidden in later years…which only served, of course, to encourage it’s use by the soldiers who wore them!). Friedrich Loeffler [ de], Das Preussische Militär-Sanitätswesen und seine Reform nach der Kriegserfahrung von 1866: 2 parts, Berlin: Hischwald, 1868 and 1869, pt. 1 'Die freiwillige Krankenpflege und die Genfer Convention vom 22. August 1864 nach der Kriegserfahrung von 1866', p. 63. No ISBN.