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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 4213471, member: 1476"]<font size="4">From the Imperial War Museums web site re World War I identity tags:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">"The official fibre tags of composite material were not trusted, especially by sailors who, correctly, did not believe that they would prove durable in water. Hence many continued to wear personal means of ID as well as official – often the official around the neck, and the unofficial as a metal wrist bracelet."</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/first-world-war-identity-tags" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/first-world-war-identity-tags" rel="nofollow">https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/first-world-war-identity-tags</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 4213471, member: 1476"][SIZE=4]From the Imperial War Museums web site re World War I identity tags:[/SIZE] [I][SIZE=3]"The official fibre tags of composite material were not trusted, especially by sailors who, correctly, did not believe that they would prove durable in water. Hence many continued to wear personal means of ID as well as official – often the official around the neck, and the unofficial as a metal wrist bracelet."[/SIZE][/I] [URL]https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/first-world-war-identity-tags[/URL] Debora[/QUOTE]
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