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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 117
reverse text: "SCHLACHT BEI GUMBINNEN 8000 GEFANGENE MEHRERE. BATTERIEN EROBERT D.24.AUGUST.1914." (embossed in seven lines on plain
background) & "21" (embossed in very small characters at upper left edge, above text)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
21 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 German check to Russian invading forces in East Prussia and is translated as 'Battle of Gumbinnen, 8,000 prisoners,
numerous batteries captured on 24 August 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.A Eastern Front & Gumbinnen commemorative First World War Battle of & 24/8/1914 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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