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9.7.2 Identity Documents. At no time should POWs be without identity documents. 140The Detaining Power shall supply such documents to POWs who possess none. 141Identity documents may be seized when necessary (e.g., intelligence purposes), providedthat the Detaining Power supplies a replacement identity document. 1429.7.3 Badges, Decorations, and Articles Having Above All a Personal or SentimentalValue. Badges of rank and nationality, decorations, and articles having “above all” a personal orsentimental value may not be taken from POWs. 143 Such items might include a ring, wristwatch,personal correspondence, or family photographs.This rule does not prohibit the search of items, including a search in order to determinewhether the items in question have above all a personal or sentimental value. 144Items that may otherwise be legitimately impounded (e.g., articles of value beingwithdrawn for reasons of security) are not precluded from being impounded because of theirpersonal or sentimental value to the POW. 1459.7.4 Money and Articles of Value. Sums of money carried by POWs may not be takenaway from them except by order of an officer, and after the amount and particulars of the ownerhave been recorded in a special register and an itemized receipt has been given, legibly inscribedwith the name, rank, and unit of the person issuing this receipt. 146Sums in the currency of the Detaining Power, or that are changed into such currency atthe POW’s request, shall be placed to the credit of the POW’s account as provided for in Article64 of the GPW. 147140 GPW art. 18 (“At no time should prisoners of war be without identity documents.”).141 GPW art. 18 (“The Detaining Power shall supply such documents to prisoners of war who possess none.”).142 GPW COMMENTARY 168 (“It is obvious, however, that no Detaining Power would undertake not to seize theindividual service records of combatants immediately following capture, since valuable information might becontained therein. The Convention does not, therefore, restrict the right of the Detaining Power to seize militarydocuments; in this respect it departs from the 1929 text but also stipulates that at no time should prisoners of war bewithout identity documents. As we have already seen in connection with Article 17, the Detaining Power musttherefore supply an identity document in place of any individual service record which it impounds.”).143 GPW art. 18 (“Badges of rank and nationality, decorations and articles having above all a personal or sentimentalvalue may not be taken from prisoners of war.”).144 Refer to § 9.6.3 (Search of POW Property).145 Refer to § 9.7.4 (Money and Articles of Value).146 GPW art. 18 (“Sums of money carried by prisoners of war may not be taken away from them except by order ofan officer, and after the amount and particulars of the owner have been recorded in a special register and an itemizedreceipt has been given, legibly inscribed with the name, rank and unit of the person issuing the said receipt.”).147 GPW art. 18 (“Sums in the currency of the Detaining Power, or which are changed into such currency at theprisoner’s request, shall be placed to the credit of the prisoner’s account as provided in Article 64.”). Refer to§ 9.18.6.1 (Cash in POW Hands Taken at the Time of Capture); § 9.18.6 (POW Accounts).531