Two Nonmilitary WW II era style Dog Tags with Female Names

[historyfinder]

The person I bought thses from said they were WAC dog tags. They don't appear to be military originated or issued. I tried researching the names but didn't have any luck. Any ideas on what they are?

[historyfinder]

I wasn't successful posting my query about two female dog tags. The pictures didn't upload and I coldn't figure out how to edit or remove my orginal post. So, since my first post is still visible, I thought I would try to describe the dog tags and then take a second shot at uploading pictures, The dog tags are a WW II era military style with a notched edge. They are both together on a typical military style chain. One says, " Griggs, Shirley-374 Hefflin Ave.-Phone 1306 M.-Lebanon, Missouri." The other says, Wanda Presley-Crocker, Missouri-Phone72-J." I'll try to upload an image again.

[cutiger83]

They sound like "next of kin" dog tags and not WAC dog tags.

 

Also, there are threads on here about how to reduce the size of pictures for uploading.

 

 

Kat

[doyler]

Could also be a depenant/wife type of tag.

 

Next of kin typically has the soldiers name and serial number/blood type etc with the NOK info below the standard info.

[bellasilva]

Definitely not NOK tags based on the description. Dependent tags would usually say "US National" if deployed, or "Dependent". Very possible they were kids send-away tags. Popular during WWII, kids could send off their info and get a set of tags in the mail. I have one such set.

[gatormeat]

army base dependent tags often will have their 'sponsor' (spouse/father) names and would state DEPENDENT/US NATIONAL etc.

a form of ID which allowed them access to the base.

depending on how 'beat' those tags are...

in some uncommon cases....when QM reg did away w/ NOK address mid -1943 & went to simple 2-line format...some GIs were loathed to

have an unknown NOK address....and made their own which were worn along with their overseas deploy tags....

i've had a very examples of this practice.