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Auxiliary medical personnel shall wear, but only while carrying out medical duties, a whitearmlet bearing in its center the distinctive sign in miniature; the armlet shall be issued andstamped by the military authority. 265 In addition, auxiliary medical personnel must abstain fromacts harmful to the enemy while carrying out their medical duties. 266When the above conditions are not present, auxiliary medical personnel may be made theobject of attack on the same basis as other combatants.4.13.4 Auxiliary Medical Personnel – Detention. Auxiliary medical personnel are POWswhen detained by the enemy during international armed conflict, but may be required to performtheir medical duties, as needed. 267 Auxiliary medical personnel are not subject to the repatriationprovisions that apply specifically to retained personnel. 2684.14 PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN DUTIES RELATED TO THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTYDuring armed conflict, different classes of persons may be engaged in duties related tothe protection of cultural property. These classes of persons may include: specialist personnel inthe armed forces, armed custodians specially empowered to guard cultural property, as well aspersons who are engaged in duties of control in accordance with the Regulations for theExecution of the 1954 Hague Cultural Property Convention. So far as consistent with theinterests of security, such personnel should be respected and permitted to carry out their dutiesfor the protection of cultural property.4.14.1 Personnel Engaged in the Protection of Cultural Property. As far as is consistentwith the interests of security, personnel engaged in the protection of cultural property shall, inthe interests of such property, be respected and, if they fall into the hands of the opposing party,shall be allowed to continue to carry out duties whenever the cultural property for which they areresponsible has also fallen into the hands of the opposing party. 269 Such personnel are analogousto military medical and religious personnel who also shall continue to carry out their medical andspiritual duties when they have fallen into the hands of the enemy. 270264 Refer to § 7.8.1 (Categories of Persons Who Are Entitled to Respect and Protection as Medical and ReligiousPersonnel on the Battlefield).265 Refer to § 7.8.4.2 (Wearing of Armlet With Miniature Distinctive Emblem).266 Refer to § 7.8.3 (Loss of Protection for Medical and Religious Personnel From Being Made the Object of Attack).267 See GWS art. 29 (“Members of the personnel designated in Article 25 who have fallen into the hands of theenemy, shall be prisoners of war, but shall be employed on their medical duties in so far as the need arises.”).268 Refer to § 4.10.2 (Military Medical and Religious Personnel - Detention).269 1954 HAGUE CULTURAL PROPERTY CONVENTION art. 15 (“As far as is consistent with the interests of security,personnel engaged in the protection of cultural property shall, in the interests of such property, be respected and, ifthey fall into the hands of the opposing Party, shall be allowed to continue to carry out duties whenever the culturalproperty for which they are responsible has also fallen into the hands of the opposing Party.”); ROERICH PACT art. 1(requiring respect and protection for personnel of “[t]he historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic,educational and cultural institutions”).270 Refer to § 7.9.3 (Duties of Retained Personnel).138