I found this STALAG VI F tag at a flea market!

[kirederf7]

So today I went to the flea market in Brussels, expecting the usual crap I was digging around in some old boxes when is found this little bugger!
At first glance I thought it was just a Belgian army dog tag but when I turned it around I saw it was actually a Stalag tag!
Can anyone here give me some more information on the tag, can I find the owner somehow?

[bigmacglenn]

Google Stalag 6...there's quite a bit of info!
cheers, Glenn

[kirederf7]

Is there any way to research the id for this tag?

[harryamb2]

a nice find.

[Danmark]

Is there any way to research the id for this tag?

I would like to know that too as I have quite a few 'half tags' - but I think records would have been all destroyed after the war for the thousands of interned.

Dan

[SteveR]

I would like to know that too as I have quite a few 'half tags' - but I think records would have been all destroyed after the war for the thousands of interned.

Dan

I am pretty sure those records are available today. I found them once looking for records of a friend of mine that was shot down over Regensberg. But I'll be damned if I can remember how I got to them.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Records of British Army (only) PoW's captured by the Germans are available on Ancestry.

Cheers, Ade.

[Danmark]

So what I was saying earlier is that I have all these half tags that would be good to research more - a project for the Winter months of this year perhaps?

Dan

[kirederf7]

Thanks for the info guys!

[thorne83]

Hi Dan,

I just picked the top tag in your photo, marked 'STALAG 344 No. 32588' and have found:
Private R S Dickson, RAMC, service no. 7376690, POW no. 32588, incarcerated in Stalag 344, Lambinowice, Poland.

I'll search the others later.

Cheers, Tom