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H034376 PATIENT DISEASE TAG.

BACKGROUND: Each Division in the German Army of WWII had Divisional Support units which included a medical unit that normally consisted of two companies, a mobile field hospital and two ambulance platoons. Within these medical units EM’s and Junior NCO’s with basic medical training acted as medical orderlies or stretcher bearers under the command of doctors with Officers ranks. The German army also maintained static hospitals in the rear areas for those with more severe wounds and those with the most serious injuries that would require long rehabilitation times would be sent to a hospital in their home military recruiting district within Germany. Generally the German field units preferred to care for their own wounded as much as possible as a convalescents transferred to a rear area static military or home military district hospital could potentially be dispatched to a new unit on their recovery. As a result most of the Divisional medical support units maintained a generous supply of medical equipment and accessories to provide the most favourable "in-house" care as possible. Among the medical equipment and accessories were a wide variety of bandages, wound dressings, basic first-aid items and wound tags. The wound tags were issued to medical personnel in booklets containing twenty-five tags and were attached to wounded personnel to indicate their wound and the appropriate action to be taken. Regulations dictated that the wound tags were only to be filled in by a doctor and that the tag was to be attach to the second button hole of the tunic, coat or the shirt button hole of the wounded individual.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Unissued, 8cm x 13cm, paper tag with perforated pull off sides. Original string is still attached. Scarce.

GRADE ****1/4                                                 PRICE $66.00

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