ARC TBC What is this photo

[Craigharrison111]

Hi. I've just joined and I'm very interested in some assistance in understanding a specific photo of my grandfather that I was recently given. He was born in north Wales in the early 1900's - I believe he was too young to be called up for the First World War and was a lead miner during the 2nd world war. I don't understand what this photo is. Whether it's a police photo or a call up photo or some other kind of photo. Can anyone assist me in understanding what I'm looking at here? What are the letters and numbers signifying? I'm really at a loss. Thanks in advance.

[SRD]

I wonder if it might be some kind of ID to show he was working in a protected industry. Social and labour history sites might come up with something.

[Frodo]

I wonder if ZNFI refers to Rudnik Trbovlje as it appears to come up regularly as an abbreviation for the place when searching the internet - it is a town in Slovenia annexed to ~Germany in WW2 and had a coal mine. Perhaps your grandfather was a prisoner of war put to work in the mine or one of the other industries of the town.

[Craigharrison111]

thanks for both suggestions - I'll look into both. I tend to lean more towards the former as from what I'm told, he didn't go overseas but I've been unable to find any similar photos to prove either case.

Anyway - thanks for the help and I'll let you know if I come up with anything.

[grangers14]

What was your grand fathers name and date of birth? Perhaps there may be some war records on him? Certainly looks like a prisoner ID photo.

[BC Wench]

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