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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 117
reverse text: "DURCH UNTERSEEBOOT 9 BEI HOEK VAN HOLLAND 3 ENGL.PANZERKREUZ.VERNICHTET D.22.SEPT.1914" (embossed in eight lines on plain
background) & "34" (embossed in very small characters at upper left of piece)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
34 in a series of over a hundred coin-sized pieces in silver, chronicling German naval and military successes of the first two years of the
First World War. The obverse bears the standard design for the series, a winged figure of Victory holding a flaming sword and victor's
laurel wreath crown together with an inscription 'GOTT SEGNETE UNSERE TAPFEREN HEERE' ('God hath blessed our valiant Armies'). The reverse
text commemorates the sinking, within the space of a single hour, of three British cruisers (the Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy), by the U-9
(commanded by Otto Weddigen) and is translated as 'Three English armoured cruisers destroyed off the Hook of Holland by submarine U9 on 22
September 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Sinking of & 22/9/1914 HMS Aboukir Royal Navy DE.N & U9 HMS Hogue HMS Cressy commemorative North Sea & HMS Aboukir First World War Sinking of & HMS Hogue Sinking of & HMS Cressy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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