Editor says:- The inscription is not entirely clear, but from top to bottom it appears to read as follows

The reason for the word "France" is a little bit of a mystery, except that Roland's DLI battalion left Newcastle to land at St Nazaire in France, and of course he was fighting in France.

After his death in the late 1960's his relatives took it to the DLI Museum in Durham, asking that it be passed to the Bradford family if possible.

Almost 30 years later Mr Charlton's grandson, Andy Kirsop, is making a repeat trip with the same request after an amazing twist of fate saw him ending up with the same silver identity tag.

Mr Kirsop said his father, Jack, had been talking about the DLI Museum to a friend on Tyneside, whose daughter deals in bric-a-brac.
"Lo and behold the friend turns up with the name tag. She had had it for 12 years and doesn't know where it came from. I've now got it and would like to see it go back to the Bradford family or the museum if they don't want it. The fact that this tag has come full circle is incredible. It's an amazing coincidence. We don't know how it came to be back out of the museum, whether it was stolen or what. It's been 12 years since it resurfaced."

Mr Kirsop, 49, who lives in Clavering Road, Swalwell, said:
"I'd like to give it back to the Bradford family. It belongs to them."

A spokesman at the DLI Museum, where Bradford's tunic and medals are on display, was at a loss to explain the mystery of the ID tag.
"It may have just been brought in to show us" he said. "Things that come in don't go out. This is something we would be delighted to have and display."

Harry Moses, a former Durham headteacher, who is writing a book on the Bradford brothers, said
"Only one, Thomas, who also served in the DLI, survived the war. He won the DSO in action and was later knighted. He died at his home in Durham City in 1966. His son, who lived in France, died last year. There's no immediate family left" he said.