Soldiers' Dog Tags Cases

One of the  missions of Olive Tree Genealogy is to reunite found Dog ID Tags of soldiers with their descendants. To date my readers have worked on the following cases and been successful in reuniting soldiers' dog id tags with family members.

We still have more cases coming in and we have old cases that have not yet been solved. If you have a moment would you read through one of the open cases below and help find family?

I welcome any found Dog ID Tags from any war and any country

List of Found Soldiers' Dog ID Tags

1. Stanley Thompson - Dog Tag found in Australia. CASE SOLVED Returned to family. See American Soldier's Lost WW2 Dog Tags Going Home!

2. Lieutenant Thomas J. Lilliard. Dog Tag found in Germany. CASE SOLVED  Family found and dog tags sent home. Read We did it! Reuniting a MIA American soldier's dog tags with family

3. Donald G. Watts. Dog Tag found in Germany. UPDATE Grandson found and contacted. Donald still living

4. Randall E. Packard. Dog Tag found in Australia. UPDATE Found and contacted Randall's wife

5. T. H. Stull  Marine Corps WW2? Possible son and daughter's name found in obituary but no contact made OPEN CASEneed help, can read obit in COMMENT section of blog post

6. George H. Stevens. U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. OPEN CASE

7. James F. Courtney. Dog Tag found in Normandy. Found and contacted grandson and other relatives but contact lost. Dog Tag still not returned.  OPEN CASE

8. Samuel P. Loftus . Found in W. Norfolk, U.K. Found son and daughter. Contacted son but no response. Case open, need to find other descendants  UPDATE Nov. 29/11: Samuel's daughter has been contacted and the dog tag is being mailed to her this week! CASE SOLVED Dec. 13/11: Dog tag safely home with Samuel's daughter and family. See "American Soldier Dog Tag: Home for Christmas!" for pictures and story

9.  L. J. Holston Jr. - Dog Tag found by Alex in Germany. Leonard's niece found and contacted but no word from Alex or Lemmy with an update on whether dog tag is going home or has already gone
UPDATE Nov. 27/11: Leoard's daughter has been found and her email contact and name sent to Alex. Waiting for word from Alex re sending the dog tag home

10. Edward Jones -New on Nov. 29/11 UPDATE The son has been found and his wife spoken to by phone. The son is also military and is excited to have his father's dog tags returned. UPDATE  Dec. 2/11: The address for Edward's son has been passed on to Megan and I'm hoping to hear good news soon. CASE SOLVED Jan. 18/12 Edward's Dog Tag has been returned to family and they've written a thank-you letter to the man who found it and sent it home.

11. John Thomas Drybrough. WW1 Canadian Soldier's Dog Tag found in France OPEN CASE.

12. Arthur Cohen. WW2 American Soldier's Dog Tag found in France. OPEN CASE

13. Harry aka Henry Taylor. WW2 British Soldier hidden from German Army in Italy. Settled in California  OPEN CASE