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Description: | SILBER 990
obverse design : Generalfeldmarschall Baron Colmar von der Goltz, bust, full face slightly turned to left, in uniform and
spectacles
obverse text : "GENERALFELDMARSCHALL FRHR.v.d.GOLTZ"
reverse design : warships on fire and sinking in the Dardanelles. In the sky, upper centre, the date "1915"
exergue : "SIEGREICHE VERTEIDIGUNG DER DARDANELLEN"
First World War German portrait medal by Fritz Eue commemorating Wilhelm Leopold Colmar, Baron von der Goltz (1843-
1916) whose varied pre-1914 career as a professional soldier included the roles of military lecturer and as an author of theoretical works
on the relationship between the German Army and society. Following the outbreak of war in 1914 von der Goltz renounced his uncongenial
position as Military Governor of newly occupied Belgium and was appointed, in November 1914, as ADC to Sultan Mohammed V of Turkey. On 24
March 1915 he was given command of the Turkish 1st Army as part of the preparations for the defence of the Gallipoli Peninsula from Allied
invasion. In October 1915, he was appointed commander of the Turkish 6th Army. The reverse text (exergue) celebrates his role as defender
of the Turkish homeland and is translated as 'Victorious defence of the Dardanelles'. He was later responsible for halting Sir Charles
Townshend's Anglo-Indian Expeditionary Force's progress in Mesopotamia, at Kut in December 1915. Von der Goltz died of typhus 10 days
before Townshend surrendered the remnants of his starving and disease-racked garrison on 29 April 1916. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Colmar von der Turkish Army portrait / personification Gallipoli & 2/1915 = 1/1916 Goltz commemorative 1st Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Oertel (Berlin) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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