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From: Ken Scott <>
Subject: [WARBRIDES-L] [Fwd: Identity Cards]
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:57:37 -0400


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Not sure if this information made it to this list. How many of you have
your wartime identity cards? I have mine and that of my late mother,
"my" warbride.

--
Kenneth Scott -- in Delightful Dunedin Florida
N 27 deg. 59.955 min, W 82 deg. 47.592 min

http://www.kenscott.com

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From: "Joy and Harvey Lewis" <>
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Subject: Identity Cards
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 10:52:35 +1000
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Hello again,

Information on identy cards has been delayed a bit, a couple of months
travelling, camping across to W.A. plus eventuially reading the "tome".

page 53 "As indicated.....almost all people alive in England and Wales
will have been issued with a NHS (national health service) number, though
during the War this will have been their National Identity number. For
those born and living in this country since 29 September 1939, it is the
only number which stays with that person that person from birth to death
and as such it is, 'prima facie', the most likely to be useful as the basis
for any scheme of record linkage - not only within the NHS system, but
across governmnt departments and even private
institutions..........................

The number itself has a simplicity of design which has now proved effective
for almost five decades. The enumeration of 29 September 1939 ascribed a
unique, four-letter code to areas believed to conatin fewer than one
thousand households, each being given a numerical figure less than 1,000.
Within each household, individuals in that house were given a further
numerical figure according to their place in the family, this second figure
being separated from the first by a stroke or colon. For example, NWRP was
a code for an area which included Prestwich, north of Manchester; 228
represented a household at 230 Butterstyle Lane; and /3 was the eldest (in
fact the only) child living with two parents. The first letter indicates a
broad idea of area,any starting with A, for example, being in London, S, in
Scotland, U in Northern Ireland, and Z in Wales. Many children were taught
to recite their number during the War, and some wore it as a necklace
which, ironically enough, caused a few accidents."

Now that I have all this information, I gather the chances of making use of
it is practically nil. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) won't part
with any info.
At least I now know how I arrived with my number.

Joy Lewis from another perfect Qld day.

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