Editing Dog tag (section)

=== Canada ===
[[File:CFID.JPG|thumb|[[Canadian Forces]] ID Disk. Name and service number are redacted.]]

[[Canadian Armed Forces]] identity discs (abbreviated "ID discs") are designed to be broken in two in the case of fatality; the lower half is returned to [[National Defence Headquarters]] with the member's personal documents, while the upper half remains on the body. The tags contain the following information:<ref>[http://www.admfincs.forces.gc.ca/admfincs/subjects/cfao/026-04_e.asp Canadian Forces Administrative Order 26-4 – Identity Discs] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070814135740/http://www.admfincs.forces.gc.ca/admfincs/subjects/cfao/026-04_e.asp |date= 2007-08-14 }} Canadian Forces Finance & Corporate Services website</ref>
* Upper half:
** [[Service number#Canada|Service Number (SN)]]
** Initials and surname
** Religion (or "NRE" if none) and blood group with RH factor
** The legend "CDN FORCES CDN" (or for foreign nationals, the name of the country the individual represents)
** The text "DO NOT REMOVE / NE PAS ENLEVER" on the reverse
* Lower half: identical, except that the reverse is blank.

Before the Service Number was introduced in the 1990s, military personnel were identified on the ID discs (as well as other documents) by their [[social insurance number]].