Geneva Convention ID Card
date: label: date issued
content: after 1964
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Printed paper.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: The Geneva Convention provides: "Each Party to a conflict is required to furnish the persons under its jurisdiction who are liable to become prisoners of war, with an identity card showing the owner's surname, first names, rank, army, regimental, personal or serial number or equivalent information, and date of birth. The identity card may, furthermore, bear the signature or the fingerprints, or both, of the owner, and may bear, as well, any other information the Party to the conflict may wish to add concerning persons belonging to its armed forces. As far as possible the card shall measure 6.5 x 10 cm. and shall be issued in duplicate. The identity card shall be shown by the prisoner of war upon demand, but may in no case be taken away from him."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related event
content: Vietnam War
label: related event
content: Postwar United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Captain William K. Emerson, USA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.76359M
label: catalog number
content: 76359M
label: accession number
content: 303435
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card
label: Other Terms
content: card; Army
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm