Dog Tags?

Originally posted by servicepub
Identity discs only make it home when the wearer does. When a soldier dies one disc is removed and makes its way to the Adjutant while the other remains with the body.

Thanks for all of that information Clive. That explains why I never saw them with my Uncles things, as a kid.

Regards my Uncle's group he was massacred in that field with. I still am not clear about if the German's just left all of our Soldiers laying there in the field, as is when they were shot and died, or if the Germans hid or buried them to keep other Canadians from finding them right away. I'm still not clear on when exactly, after they were murdered, our Soldiers were found by our Canadians.
Does anyone else know? I know the men who escaped were re-captured then sent to POW camps for months before they were able to tell what happened in that field.

Always with the questions, I am

Karmen