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5 Mils 24th Australian Infantry Brigade
| Uitgever | 24th Australian Infantry Brigade |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1941 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
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| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain orange paper with black letterpress print. The issuing unit abbreviation appears at top, the denomination numeral and unit name in bold centred type, and the legend OFFICER'S MESS in large capitals at foot, all framed by two horizontal rules. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | 24 Aust. Inf. Bde. 5 Mils OFFICER'S MESS |
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| Opmerkingen |
The 24th Australian Infantry Brigade's locally-produced scrip from 1941 belongs to a category of military necessity currency that formal banking histories rarely acknowledge. During the Middle East and Pacific campaigns, Australian brigade-level commands occasionally authorized their own low-denomination canteen and welfare fund tokens — paper scrip issued to control spending within controlled garrison or base environments, preventing coin drainage into local economies and simplifying accounting at unit level.
The 5 Mils denomination places this firmly in a Middle East posting, almost certainly Egypt, Palestine, or Cyrenaica, where the mil was the operative small unit of currency. The orange paper stock was a deliberate denominator color-coding choice, not an aesthetic one.