5 Pounds - Elizabeth II End of World War I - Recruitment

Alderney was occupied by German forces from July 1940 until May 1945 — the only British territory to be so for the duration of the war — and its entire civilian population had been evacuated beforehand, most never returning. That history gives commemoratives issued under the Alderney name an uncomfortable irony that purely metropolitan British issues lack.

The recruitment theme references the 1914–18 volunteer and conscription drives, particularly the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee's campaign, which produced over five million posters before conscription made it redundant in January 1916.