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Description: | obverse design : Admirals Sir John Jellicoe and Sir David Beatty GCB, joint busts, in uniform. Jellicoe's full face partly
obscures Beatty's right profile. Beneath the busts a laurel branch
obverse text : "RESOLUTE IN ACTION" & "JUTLAND MAY 31 - JUNE 1 . 1916"
piece reverse design and text : within a laurel wreath 'THE - GERMAN . HIGH - SEA . FLEET . HELD AGAINST . ODDS TILL . ROUTED BY .
INVINCIBLE MIGHT.' Around the edge '.STRUCK . UNDER . THE . AUSPICES . OF . THE . ROYAL . NUMISMATIC . SOCIETY . 1916 . AE . PRESIDENT
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First World War British medal by Walter Gilbert and Charles Wheeler commemorating a British naval victory at the Battle
of Jutland, 31 May - 1 June 1916. This piece was the third medal issued under the auspices of the Royal Numismatic Society following the
competition instituted by the Society's President Sir Arthur Evans FSA, for a medal to commemorate the Battle of Jutland. The medal itself
represents the combination of Gilbert's obverse design (which had originally been awarded third prize) and Wheeler's reverse (which had won
fourth prize). Sir Arthur Evans, showing a fine appreciation of the value of positive propaganda, sought to wrest the initiative in this
field of activity from the more active German medallists. He also saw the competition as an opportunity to reject what he viewed as
decadent practices in the medallic arts and re-validate the more traditional forms and standards of skilled medal production with the
emphasis on artistic simplicity, boldness of relief and finish and precision in modelling. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Battle of & 31/5/1916 = 1/6/1916 Beatty John Rushworth North Sea & Jutland commemorative IRON DUKE (HMS) LION (HMS) Jellicoe portrait / personification David Richard Royal Navy Naval Operations Battle of Jutland 1916 North Sea First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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