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Offline Janette

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Re: WWII Soldier "TATE"
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 03 May 16 20:30 BST (UK) »
Our NZ boys  may have knocked up a set of dog tags for him.

Rules were often ignored if meant a life would be saved

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Re: WWII Soldier "TATE"
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 03 May 16 20:39 BST (UK) »
I would not be surprised Jeanette!
Two identical dog tags would not get past the German book keepers if caught.

Another book mentioning 'Tate' and 'Mosenson' for cross reference
search for Tate's grave
http://www.christianhistoryresearchaustralia.com/newbooks/Anzacs8.pdf

We had men in WW2 from New Zealand that lied about their names and ages just to go to WW2, some didn't think about what news their families would get.
Wemyss/Crombie/Laing/Blyth (West Wemyss)
Givens/Normand (Dysart)
Clark/Lister (Dysart)
Wilkinson/Simson (Kettle or Kettlehill)

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Re: WWII Soldier "TATE"
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 04 May 16 07:12 BST (UK) »
The dog tags would contain the persons Blood Group  and Religion
Nursall   ~    Buckinghamshire
Avies ~   Norwich

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Re: WWII Soldier "TATE"
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 04 May 16 21:27 BST (UK) »
"EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY contains the graves of men who died at all stages of the Western Desert campaigns, brought in from a wide area, but especially those who died in the Battle of El Alamein at the end of October 1942 and in the period immediately before that. The cemetery now contains 7,240 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, of which 815 are unidentified."
http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/cemeteries/el-alamein-war-cemetery

Quite a few (815) men unidentified buried in the allied grave yard, Tate could even have moved here been from the big bridge area where lots of men were said to have fallen in Mosenson's book
Wemyss/Crombie/Laing/Blyth (West Wemyss)
Givens/Normand (Dysart)
Clark/Lister (Dysart)
Wilkinson/Simson (Kettle or Kettlehill)