Given the inscription, it is possible this note belonged to MCNAMARA CECIL STEPHEN : Service Number - NX1416 : Date of birth - 26 Apr 1907 : Place of birth - GUNDY NSW : Place of enlistment - SCONE NSW : Next of Kin - EILEENTen cent note from the Government of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. It is small, rectangular and paper with blue print on one side. The back is blank except for a black six-digit number. The text is mostly in English.Front: "THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON / THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT / OF A N A MOUNT NOT EXCEEDING FIVE RUPEES / TEN CENTS / TEN CENTS / 1ST FEBRUARY 1942 / COMMISSIONERS OF CURRENCY" (what is possibly an Indian language inscription beneath) "NX1416 / Cecil. S. McNamara / 26/8/42" (handwritten in ink) Back: A / 8 / 480657"ceylon currency, sri lankan currency, 1942 bank note, wwii money

The Wodonga Historical Society Haeusler Collection provides invaluable insight into life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century north east Victoria. The collection comprises manuscripts, personal artefacts used by the Haeusler family on their farm in Wodonga, and a set of glass negatives which offer a unique visual snapshot of the domestic and social lives of the Haeusler family and local Wodonga community. The Haeusler family migrated from Prussia (Germany) to South Australia in the 1840s and 1850s, before purchasing 100 acres of Crown Land made available under the Victorian Lands Act 1862 (also known as ‘Duffy’s Land Act’) in 1866 in what is now Wodonga West. The Haeusler family were one of several German families to migrate from South Australia to Wodonga in the 1860s.This item has well documented provenance and a known owner. It forms part of a significant and representative historical collection which reflects the local history of Wodonga. It contributes to our understanding of the social history of early twentieth century Wodonga. Early 20th century rupee from British Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and interwar era livre from Greater Lebanon (Lebanon and Syria). The livre were issued during the French League of Nations mandate period. Collection of savings bank passbooks from the Savings Bank Wodonga. Text on letters, money and bank passbookshaeusler collection, wodonga, money, notes, bank notes, banking, currency, syria, lebanon, ceylon, sri lanka

Memorabilia associated with the service of Elizabeth Jean Simpson during WWII. There are nine paper currency notes and eleven coins of various sizes and colours from Japan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Malaya (Malaysia), India (also for Burma), South Africa, United States of America, Egypt, Great Britain, Lebanon, Ireland, Netherlands East Indies [Indonesia], Australia, Thailand, and Turkey. There is a set of identity disks, one circular the other octagonal with holes in each and joined by brown leather cord threaded through the holes, the disks also have the name, service number and other details stamped on them, the metal is silver and shiny. There is also a miniature wooden shoe shaped like a small heeled shoe or clog [Image search shows it to be a similar style to those made by prisoners of war (see reference entries)] and a very small ancient Roman coin of unknown authenticity.'SIMPSON EJ' [Stamped around top front of circular disk] 'P' [Stamped near centre front of circular disk] 'VFX 65925' [Stamped around lower front of circular disk] 'A2' [Stamped near centre back of circular disk] 'SIMPSON EJ' [Stamped around top front of octagonal disk] 'P' [Stamped near centre front of octagonal disk] 'VFX 65925' [Stamped around lower front of octagonal disk] 'A2' [Stamped near centre back of octagonal disk] currency, nursing in warfare, wwii, world war 2, ww2, elizabeth jean simpson, souvenirs