50 Pence - Elizabeth II WWI - Pals Battalions

The Pals Battalions were a deliberate War Office strategy from 1914, encouraging men from the same town, workplace, or social circle to enlist together — with the implicit promise they would serve together. It worked catastrophically well. When a single engagement could kill an entire street's worth of young men simultaneously, the community grief was concentrated in ways that scattered losses never produced. The Somme effectively ended the experiment.

Jersey lost men in those battalions disproportionate to its small population, with islanders serving primarily through mainland British units given Jersey's lack of its own line regiment.