Dog Tags?

Originally posted by Pylon1357
Karmen, It would be pretty much impossible to speculate as to what happened to your Uncle Ed's I.D. tags...

My uncle Clifford DOW 14-Sept-44, no personal effects were recoved either, odd as he died in hospital...Just one of things I suppose.

That IS odd if he died in hospital. Maybe they were removed or torn off out in the field before he was transported to hospital?

I still don't know how they could identify my Uncle Ed from the others if their tags were also taken from them with other personal effects. Makes me wonder if Uncle Ed really is in that grave thats marked as his, or is someone else? They all are there in Beny Sur Mer though. Together.

No DNA testing back then, although come to think of it, I have diagrams of my uncles dental records or chart in his service records, so maybe they id'd soldiers this way

Karmen