National Identification Card - 1940

National Identification Card - 1940's detailed card with change stamps

Great Britain was involved in total war between 1939 and 1945, and everybody was recorded under a National Registration scheme (a wartime census) that took place on 29 September 1939 (i.e. after most evacuation was deemed to have happened). People were issued with an individual national identity card that had to be carried at all times (until 1952) and ration books for food and scarce commodities (rationing continued until 1954).