4 Annas COM CAR Officer Club

COM CAR — Combined Carrier — was the Allied fleet train operating in the Indian Ocean and Pacific during the Second World War. Messing and canteen tokens issued aboard these vessels, including small-denomination scrip like this 4 Annas note, allowed shipboard transactions without drawing on official naval pay or introducing hard currency into controlled environments. The anna denomination places this squarely within the Indian monetary system, reflecting the operational geography of the fleet.

Wartime shipboard scrip of this type was rarely documented systematically, and survival rates are low — most was redeemed, lost at sea, or simply discarded at the end of commission.