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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 117
reverse text: "ZWISCHEN REIMS-VERDUN 10 FRANZ ARMEEKORPS GEWORFEN D.2.SEPTEMBER 1914" (embossed in seven lines on plain background) & "30"
(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
30 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 invasion of France in 1914 and is translated as 'The 10th French Army Corps repulsed between Rheims and Verdun
on 2 September 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Western Front & German Offensive 1914 & 10th French Army Corps Repulsed between Rheims and Verdun & 2/9/1914 DE.A commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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