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25 Cents 22nd Field Ambulance
| Issuer | 22nd Field Ambulance, Canadian Army |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed canteen note in black ink with a blue manuscript signature. A vignette of islands with palm trees occupies the upper portion, with two ships on sea rendered at the bottom. Trees flank both lateral margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CENTS CANTEEN NOTE 1/4 DOLLAR 22 FD. AMB. |
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Canadian military field ambulance units occasionally issued their own scrip during World War II when physical coin was impractical in forward or isolated postings. The 22nd Field Ambulance, a medical unit of the Canadian Army, produced this 25-cent note in 1942 — almost certainly for canteen or mess use within the unit itself, giving it an extremely limited and captive circulation pool.
Unit-issued scrip of this type was never officially sanctioned by Ottawa and exists in a bureaucratic grey zone. Surviving examples are rare simply because they were never meant to outlast the posting that produced them.