50 Pence - Elizabeth II WWI - Palestine

Guernsey occupied an unusual position in the First World War — the only British territory to have men serve under the formal administration of a mandate that did not yet legally exist. The Palestine campaign, fought between 1917 and 1918 under Allenby, predated the British Mandate by three years, meaning the soldiers commemorated here fought for a territorial outcome whose political shape was still being negotiated in London and Paris while they were still in the field.