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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 117
reverse text: "BEI LYCK DAS 22.RUSS.ARMEEKORPS GESCHLAGEN D. 12.SEPT.1914" (embossed in seven lines on plain background) & "33" (embossed
in very small characters at upper left edge)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
33 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 victory at Lyck, on the Eastern Front and is translated as 'The Russian 22nd Army Corps defeated at Lyck on 12
September 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Lyck DE.A Battle of & 12/9/1914 commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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