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badge, identity (POW)

human history
  • Common Name
    identity tag
  • Other Name

    prisoner of war identity tag on wrist band, WW2 (descriptive name)

    22478 Pte George Edmund Snell, 21 (Auckland) Battalion, 2NZEF (associated name)

  • Description

    German prisoner of war identity tag on wrist band associated with 22478 Pte George Edmund Snell, 21 (Auckland) Battalion, 2NZEF.

    description: rectangular two-part metal German tag riveted to wide leather band with buckled strap; tag features central horizontal perforation splitting tag lengthwise, top & bottom stamped (mirror-image) with Stalag number and POW number: 'Stalag XVIIIA nr. 3457'.

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    2019.62.149
  • Accession Date
    19 Sep 2019
  • Department
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