1810 23 85 A Court Martial has been holden on Captain John Spearing..being accused by the ward-room officers of embezzling their mess money.
1875 15 May 617 He was dismissed with a ‘discharge ticket’, and a small sum of accumulated mess-money.
1918 Apr. 226/2 Each pay day all members of the mess paid the caterer their mess money.
2004 R. E. Miller vi. 104 Our mess money comes through the officer's mess, but we can't eat what the officers eat.