WW2 Attributed New Zealand POW Identity Disc.

German made identity disc marked to “Stalag VIIIB “ and prisoner number “22185”.

The POW number is correctly attributed to PTE Geoffrey William Dayman, a Signalman 2nd NZ Division and captured during the Greek and Crete campaigns. The details can be found on the website

https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/118228



Stalag VIII-B (later Stalag 344) was a massive German POW camp in Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice, Poland), holding tens of thousands of Allied soldiers Primarily Polish initially, later including British, French, Yugoslav, Greek, Soviet, US, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Italian. internees, often dispersed across numerous work details.

Code: 3510