identity disc
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19790147-002
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made --
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Personal symbol
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Inscription 302471 Gr Wrght J.H, 30 Bty C.F.A.
- Materials Bakelite, Cotton
- Branch Canadian Field Artillery
- Rank Gunner
- Service Component Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Unit 30TH FIELD BATTERY
- Measurements Length 61.7 cm, Width 3.4 cm, Thickness 0.1 cm
- Related activity Gunner
- Caption Identity Disc
- Additional Information Identity disc of Gunner John Herbert Wright, who served with the 30th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery. Canadians initially carried a variety of informal identity discs, but by the Battle of the Somme (1916) identity discs came in pairs, one to be kept with the dead body and the other to be removed for reporting purposes. After the war, grave digging teams often disinterred remains from temporary wartime graves and reburied them in the official cemeteries of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.