10 Heller Sigmundsherberg; PoW Camp

Sigmundsherberg, a large Austro-Hungarian PoW camp in Lower Austria, operated a internal camp currency system during the First World War — a common enough practice, but the officers' compound maintaining its own separate scrip from the enlisted men's issue was a deliberate administrative distinction rooted in the 1907 Hague Convention's requirement that officer prisoners be housed and treated differently from other ranks. This note is the product of that bureaucratic separation.

Campbell 1449 is among the more obscure entries in the PoW emergency issues. Documentation on Sigmundsherberg's internal monetary arrangements is thin, and surviving examples are rarely encountered outside specialist collections.