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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 220708, member: 6986&quot;]These notes were printed by the War Department and used in all of the British POW camps.&nbsp; Each camp was assigned a number which was put in the Camp of Issue line on the note usually by rubber stamp.</p><p><br /></p><p>A list of the British POW camps and their numbers can be found at <a href="http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/LIST%20OF%20UK%20POW%20CAMPS1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/LIST%20OF%20UK%20POW%20CAMPS1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/LIST OF UK POW CAMPS1.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Notes for the internment camps were issued by the Home Office and have the letters HO in the underprint.&nbsp; The internment camp notes are significantly more scarce than the POW notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The British in East Africa also issued a set of notes for use in the POW camps located there.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the United States, chits that look like small tickets were used as scrip in the POW camps and internment camps.&nbsp; They came in booklets.&nbsp; POWs in the US camps were paid 80 cents per day for labor.&nbsp; They were paid with the chit booklets which they could use to purchase items at the camp POW canteens.&nbsp; They could also bank their pay.&nbsp; At the end of the war they were given checks in dollars for the balance of their accounts.&nbsp; These checks could only be cashed by US military finance personnel in their home country.</p><p><br /></p><p>France, Italy and Germany also issued notes for use in POW camps.&nbsp; Ireland and Switzerland issued notes for internment camps also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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