The Egyptian army tracked every soldier through registers matched against physical property.

Evidence

In short, every person and piece of equipment had to be accounted for and this was best done by checking the thing itself against the place it occupied in the list. These lists had to be kept constantly updated to account for all the changes that might have occurred. Deserters leaving their equipment behind had their belongings collected by their corporals and delivered to the sergeant-majors. On being informed that any soldier had had his name removed from the registers because of his desertion, death or being sent to the Liman of Alexandria, the sergeant-major had to collect his belongings immediately within forty-eight hours and send them to the government together with his registers. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 725

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian military regulations spatially mapped every soldier into barracks through name labeling. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 712; Egyptian army officials conducted daily minute inspections of every soldier’s body — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1152; Conscription collected even the mutilated into whole regiments in Egypt (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Egyptian military regulations spatially mapped every soldier into barracks through name labeling. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 712; Egyptian army officials conducted daily minute inspections of every soldier’s body — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1152; Conscription collected even the mutilated into whole regiments in Egypt (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian military regulations were routinely at odds with soldiers’ actual daily lives #complicates (0.82) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1107
• Conscription collected even the mutilated into whole regiments in Egypt #complicates (0.78)