King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Identity Discs

Alloy/Aluminium Identity Discs, circa 1906-First World War

Metal identity discs were introduced for British soldiers from 1906.  The disc would include details such as the name, number, regiment and religion of the soldier.  They survived into the First World War even after their official replacement by the fibre discs in 1914.

W Booth, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. One stamped ‘KORR’ and the other ‘5 N Lanc. R.’
Accession Number: KO2115/03


Private John Corless, number 6693, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Church of England.
Accession Number: KO2771/06


Private Robert Hardy, number 8076, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Church of England.
Accession Number: KO2842/05

Identity disc, alloy, on chain bracelet, named to ‘Private H J Pidgeon, number 25661, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment’
Accession Number: KO3020/19

Private John Wilkinson, number 1599, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Church of England.
Accession Number: KO1445/05

Company Sergeant Major Joseph Wood, number 5518, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment. Accession Number: KO1725/04

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