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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 2463210, member: 22729&quot;]Very nice, Paddy, but as you say, sad that these types of things don&#039;t always remain with loved ones. I&#039;ve thought of this is regard to privately made dog tags worn by some soldiers in the American Civil War. I have two counterstamped pieces, one I&#039;m certain was used as identification by a soldier from Hew Hampshire, and the second a holed coin from an artilleryman from Vermont.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our government didn&#039;t issue dog tags regularly until WWi, so men from earlier wars sometimes used various forms of body identification. There was a great fear that they would fall in battle and never be identified. Sadly, nearly half of all military burials were of men unknown. When you come into possession of these types of things, it makes you wonder what happened to the soldier and why this memento of him is no longer with his family.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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