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1 Shilling Peveril Internment Camp
| Issuer | Peveril Internment Camp |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Value | 1 Shilling (1⁄20) |
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| Obverse description | Plain lilac card stock printed in black letterpress. The title 'Canteen Voucher.' appears in bold serif type at upper left, followed by a thin horizontal rule; the denomination '1/-' is set in large bold figures at centre. A manuscript authorisation signature in violet ink occupies the right half of the voucher. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, plain lilac card stock with no text, vignette, or markings of any kind. |
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Peveril, located near Peel on the Isle of Man, was one of several internment camps established under Defence Regulation 18B to hold Category A and B aliens — predominantly German and Austrian nationals, including a significant number of Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution only to find themselves imprisoned by the British government. The camps operated their own internal scrip currencies to prevent internees from accumulating sterling that might facilitate escape or black market activity with locals.
Isle of Man camp currencies are among the most historically loaded prisoner scrip of the Second World War, precisely because a substantial portion of their users were anti-Nazi refugees rather than enemy sympathizers.