ID Tag Info

**Pauls1970** · 01-10-2016, 05:50 PM

Have owned this ID tag since 1990/91 it's made of zinc, but have always been a bit confused with regard to the markings (23456), would anyone have an idea on this one at all ?
Kind regards
Paul

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 01-10-2016 05:50 PM

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**BlackCat1982** · 01-10-2016, 09:01 PM

Recruit tag from WKXII, these are quite common,the high roll number is not unusual. Tag is fine and original.

**Pauls1970** · 01-10-2016, 10:01 PM

Thanyou for your reply Blackcat ! I always wondered the No. 23456, seemed unbelieveable, being in numerical order. So when recruits went through training, these were handed back in then & the recruit was assigned a new tag for his appropiate regiment ?
Is it possible to tell the branch of service this particular tag would have been used by & approx. date of manafacture ?
Regards Paul

**BlackCat1982** · 01-11-2016, 02:05 PM

Branch of service would be Luftwaffe, as it is a Flieger ersatz batl tag. It would have been retained by the owner, not handed in necessarily. When he was posted to a new unit he might have been given a new tag, but this is not a hard fast rule. I should add the unit originally formed in 1942. Although LW the odds are that was fed into a field unit as infantry.

**ynot** · 01-12-2016, 08:04 AM

Just curious, is it possible to trace a tag owner's name from the roll number regardless of the unit/branch of service served in?

Tony

**BlackCat1982** · 01-12-2016, 02:41 PM

by ynot

Just curious, is it possible to trace a tag owner's name from the roll number regardless of the unit/branch of service served in?

Tony

Only relatives can get the info from Berlin,if the records are there. The website is:
Http://www.dd-wast.de/

**ynot** · 01-13-2016, 08:15 AM

by BlackCat1982

Only relatives can get the info from Berlin,if the records are there. The website is:
Http://www.dd-wast.de/

Thanks very much for the info.

**Pauls1970** · 01-14-2016, 12:30 AM

by BlackCat1982

Branch of service would be Luftwaffe, as it is a Flieger ersatz batl tag. It would have been retained by the owner, not handed in necessarily. When he was posted to a new unit he might have been given a new tag, but this is not a hard fast rule. I should add the unit originally formed in 1942. Although LW the odds are that was fed into a field unit as infantry.

Wow, thanks for this, I've always wondered, see what your saying though, more than a chance that he ended up in the infantry.
Regards Paul