Allen S. Taylor - US Dogtags found in the Netherlands

I just received an email from someone in Dodewaard, in the Netherlands asking me for assistance in tracking down some info on US dogtags. Apparently he found two US dogtags about 5 years ago and wants to return them to the family. He has made some attempts online to track down the owners, but things are made a bit more difficult in that the emailer doesn't speak much English, only Dutch, and my Dutch is atrocious. I'm using google's translation to help communicate, which seems to be working ok so far.

I've asked for photos of the dags, and hopefully he can supply us with when and where he found the tags also. So far that's all I have, but seeing as his location is fairly close to Nijmegen this may be an interesting research project. Any all help is appreciated.

More info will be posted here as I get it.

I've created a dedicated thread for the second dogtag on Phillip A. Nichols here.

 

Here is the first dogtag. My first though is that the condition is really very good. I'm wondering what these tags were made of, and if they would look so good after 70 odd years?

 

I'm IN ! I'll head over to fold3 and see if anything pops up.

update;
Born 1922, enlisted at Hagerstown , Maryland; National Guard; Feb. 3rd 1941; Infantry

Not much but it's a start.

 

Here's what NARA has. I'll look around.


Field Title Value Meaning ARMY SERIAL NUMBER 20341086 20341086
NAME TAYLOR#ALLEN#S########## TAYLOR#ALLEN#S##########
RESIDENCE: STATE 31 MARYLAND RESIDENCE: COUNTY 043 WASHINGTON
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT 3160 HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND
DATE OF ENLISTMENT DAY 03 03 DATE OF ENLISTMENT MONTH 02 02 DATE OF ENLISTMENT YEAR 41 41
GRADE: ALPHA DESIGNATION PFC# Private First Class
GRADE: CODE 7 Private First Class
BRANCH: ALPHA DESIGNATION INF Infantry
BRANCH: CODE 10 Infantry
FIELD USE AS DESIRED # # TERM OF ENLISTMENT 0 Undefined Code
LONGEVITY ### ###
SOURCE OF ARMY PERSONNEL 7 National Guard
NATIVITY 31 MARYLAND
YEAR OF BIRTH 22 22
RACE AND CITIZENSHIP 1 White, citizen
EDUCATION 0 Grammar school
CIVILIAN OCCUPATION 316 Farm hands, general farms
MARITAL STATUS 6 Single, without dependents
COMPONENT OF THE ARMY 4 National Guard (Officers, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
CARD NUMBER # #
BOX NUMBER 0341 0341
FILM REEL NUMBER 3.63#
3.63#

Update - Check the 502nd PIR website. There's a picture of a Sgt. Allen S. Taylor about half way down. Same guy perhaps?

 

We've found them before, I feel good about locating the soldier who wore this one.

 

Very quick work all around, thank you all. Hopefully he survived the war and simply lost the tag somewhere.

I've move the thread from the Information Requests area to Military Service Records & Genealogical Research which is a bit more accurate. I'll compile all the info into the opening post when I get a chance. The other dogtag just arrived in my inbox, so a new thread will be started for him.

 

More on the location of discovery, info is from the person who found it.

The dogtags which I have found was near the road called “Waalstraat”at the place of Andelst.
This place is in the community called “the Over-Betuwe”.
The district is called Gelderland.

The dogtag of Allen Taylor was laying a few meters off this road at the depth of about 20 cm
The dogtag of Phillip Nichols was about 600 meters further on and a hundred meters off the road at a depth of about 25 cm and a year after the first dogtag.

I've not had time to dig into google earth, and plan to do so later this evening.

 

Fantastic dg1983! Do you mind if I send you an email direct? It will makes things a lot easier.

 

Thanks for the info Natman, glad he survived and lived a full life. It looks like we will be going after next of kin then.

You probably have an account at ancestry.com? The links don't work for visitors, they ask for a login for me.

 

Fantastic work! Thanks TD and Natman.

I'll have some good updates soon. Ive now got a translator to help me with the contact in Holland. Well see if we can get these tags back to the family.</p>