Voucher - 3 Pence Hay Internment Camp; No.6 Camp Officers' Mess

Hay Internment Camp in rural New South Wales held civilian internees during the Second World War — predominantly German and Italian nationals, as well as Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi Germany only to be interned by the British as "enemy aliens" and transported to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera in 1940. The Dunera boys, as they came to be known, included a remarkable number of academics, artists, and professionals. The officers' mess voucher system at No. 6 Camp was a closed internal scrip economy, keeping real currency out of internee hands entirely.

Tan paper, three pence face value — redeemable nowhere outside the wire.