Posted for Bob aka pocketpiececommems: His WWI engraved serviceman token

savoyspecial

AUandAG

ricko

Cheers, RickO

TwoSides2aCoin

Salutations and thanks. Anyone who serves knows what good service is.

JamesMurray

I dont think it's a token , some may have seen me mention before about my being a member on the WW2 forum , that appears to be a servicemans replacement dogtag.This was commen practice to use a coin from where a man might be when its needed , his service number and full name points to it as well as the unit AED being mentioned.


Edited: No hole for a chain though and the obverse being as nice , maybe not what i thought.

savoyspecial

JamesMurray,

I had exactly the same feeling. Would this piece have been holded at the 12:00 position, I would have been inclined to call it a 'dogtag' or ID tag

ajaan

Might this be a dogtag?

JamesMurray

Its one of those "if it could talk" items for sure , what a story it could tell. It got me thinking , during active service how many men actually wear the dogtags , i know i didnt , i got rid of them shortly after boot camp.Maybe this soldier needed a replacement but had no inclination to wear it as a pendent , stuck it in a pocket. A WW 1 soldiers pockepiece from the frontline,something a bit special about that.

rawmorgan

There has also been one on "Long Island Numismatics" website that I would think is a WW1 replacement dogtag. Not my website, not my tags.

Dog tag on 2 Francs 1917

291fifth

Probably a pocketpiece or secondary dog tag. The use of a Belgian coin is interesting. I didn't think many Americans were stationed in Belgium, a British area in WWI. Think Flanders Fields.

JamesMurray

15,000 American soldiers lie buried in Belgium , the Ardennes offensive.

Tdec1000

<< <i>I dont think it's a token , some may have seen me mention before about my being a member on the WW2 forum , that appears to be a servicemans replacement dogtag.This was commen practice to use a coin from where a man might be when its needed , his service number and full name points to it as well as the unit AED being mentioned.


Edited: No hole for a chain though and the obverse being as nice , maybe not what i thought. >>




AED? That is AEF. American Expeditionary Forces.

pocketpiececommems

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