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Identification tag belonging to the Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Van Sau, identified by service number 123300, blood group AB (MÁU AB) and recruited in 1947. During this period, numerous Vietnamese soldiers served in units of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps (Corps Expéditionnaire Français en Extrême-Orient, CEFEO), before military responsibilities were progressively transferred to the Vietnamese National Army (Quân đội Quốc gia Việt Nam), established within the State of Vietnam.
The late 1940s was a time of transition: the Élysée Agreement was signed and administrative powers of recruitment began to be transferred from the French colonial authorities to the new local administration of the State of Vietnam. While maintaining the physical form of the French Army plate (the 1918/35 rhomboid pattern) and using local workshops in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) or Hanoi to punch out the brass, they began to replace the French registration terms (such as Matricule or Recrutement) with the Vietnamese abbreviation SQ (Số Quân).
Original Vietnamese First Indochina War identification tag.
