2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Islander's Return

Alderney's entire civilian population was evacuated by the British government in June 1940, just days before German occupation — the only mass civilian evacuation of British territory in the Second World War. Unlike the other Channel Islands, Alderney remained almost completely depopulated under occupation, used largely for forced labor camps. Islanders who returned from 1945 onward came back to a community that had been methodically stripped bare. This 1995 issue marks the fiftieth anniversary of that return.