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wear on the left arm while carrying out their duties. 436 This armlet shall be issued by the Stateand shall bear the emblem provided for in Article 38 of the GWS. 4377.17.4.2 Other Civilian Hospital Personnel. Other personnel who are engaged inthe operation and administration of civilian hospitals shall also be entitled to respect andprotection and to wear the armlet while they are employed on such duties. 438 The identity cardshall state the duties on which they are employed. 4397.17.4.3 List of Permanent and Temporary Civilian Hospital Personnel. Themanagement of each hospital shall at all times hold at the disposal of the competent national oroccupying authorities an up-to-date list of such personnel. 440 This list should provide the namesof all hospital personnel, both permanent and temporary, and specify the duties of each ofthem. 4417.18 LAND AND SEA CIVILIAN HOSPITAL CONVOYSConvoys of vehicles or hospital trains on land or specially provided vessels on sea,conveying wounded and sick civilians, the infirm, and maternity cases, shall be respected andprotected in the same manner as the hospitals provided for in Article 18 of the GC, and shall bemarked, with the consent of the State, by the display of the distinctive emblem provided for inArticle 38 of the GWS. 442The vehicles in a medical convoy need not be used permanently for medical purposes,but while they are in the convoy, they are not to be used for other purposes. 443436 GC art. 20 (“In occupied territory and in zones of military operations, the above personnel shall be recognizableby means of an identity card certifying their status, bearing the photograph of the holder and embossed with thestamp of the responsible authority, and also by means of a stamped, water-resistant armlet which they shall wear onthe left arm while carrying out their duties.”).437 GC art. 20 (“This armlet shall be issued by the State and shall bear the emblem provided for in Article 38 of theGeneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field ofAugust 12, 1949.”).438 GC art. 20 (“Other personnel who are engaged in the operation and administration of civilian hospitals shall beentitled to respect and protection and to wear the armlet, as provided in and under the conditions prescribed in thisArticle, while they are employed on such duties.”).439 GC art. 20 (“The identity card shall state the duties on which they are employed.”).440 GC art. 20 (“The management of each hospital shall at all times hold at the disposal of the competent national oroccupying authorities an up-to-date list of such personnel.”).441 GC COMMENTARY 169 (“The management of every civilian hospital must keep an up-to-date nominal list of allthe hospital staff, both permanent and temporary, specifying the duties of each of them.”).442 GC art. 21 (“Convoys of vehicles or hospital trains on land or specially provided vessels on sea, conveyingwounded and sick civilians, the infirm and maternity cases, shall be respected and protected in the same manner asthe hospitals provided for in Article 18, and shall be marked, with the consent of the State, by the display of thedistinctive emblem provided for in Article 38 of the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of theWounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of August 12, 1949.”).443 GC COMMENTARY 170 (“The word ‘vehicle’ must be taken in the broadest possible sense: it covers any meansof transport by land; it need not necessarily be used solely for medical purposes. It will be enough if it is so used481