Everybody carried an identity card in this country. They would keep track of where everybody went so that they could be checked on. Of course there were checkpoints that were manned by troops on main roads into important areas. My area,where I was born, the identity card system had not started operating when I left. But during my 3rd leave coming home I couldn’t get in. Nobody was there to verify who I was. I could have been anyone, even a German in a marine uniform. They had to phone up the local hotel in my little village to verify who I was. This is the registration book and identity card and every time you moved you put your new address in it. You get stamped from the place you were leaving to, to where the place you’re moving to. Eventually when I left Inverness in 1949 the registration and identity card still in operation I had every shift I had. I had six addresses in my identity card booklet.