Commanders down to the squad level - nine-soldier units - would use a checklist to help identify soldiers at risk.

Identifying and handling dead soldiers is an inevitability of war, they say.

Another dog tag is kept inside the military boot in order to identify dead soldiers.

In the Civil War, no systematic way existed to identify dead soldiers.

"It's hard to identify who's who: soldiers, rebels or bandits."

The huge war memorial from 1938 contains the corpses of 39.857 identified Italian soldiers, and 69.330 unidentified.

The American Civil War marked the first time the United States made a concerted effort to identify dead soldiers.

Some of the detainees identified soldiers already charged in the case.

Richardson and his staff have also been involved in work to identify soldiers who fell at the battle of Fromelles in July 1916.

In addition to the measures intended to help identify, isolate or eliminate soldiers of suspect loyalty, the regulations for dismissal were liberalised.