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Alan Dawes wrote:
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charles wrote:
There was an exception - which is why my father's ID card wasn't issued
until August 1945. Can you guess waht that exception was?

Not really but here are some guesses:

Enemy alien incarcerated in a detention camp on the Isle of man for the
duration of the war.

Working in Germany in 1939 and incarcerated by the Germans.

A foreign national (from a "friendly" country) working in this country who
had their own ID eg passport.

I did wonder if in some branches of the armed force the paybook was
accepted as ID.

I don't know - please tell.


It's the last of your suggestions. That's why his ID card is dated from
when he was "demobbed".

I had an uncle where probably no 2 applied - except he wasn't incarcerated
by the Germans.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England