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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "BESETZUNG VON OSSOWIEC U.EINNAHME V.TYKOCIN 23.AUG.1915" (embossed around upper and lower edges and in four lines on plain
background) & "100" (embossed in very small characters at upper left of piece)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
100 in a series of over a hundred small coin-sized pieces in silver, chronicling German naval and military successes, and those of her
allies, in 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 the variant inscription 'GOTT SEGNETE DIE VEREINIGTEN HEERE' ('God
hath blessed the allied Armies'). The reverse text commemorates German military operations on the Eastern Front (on the River Bobr in
Western Russia) and is translated as 'Occupation of Ossowiec and capture of Tykocin, 23 August 1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Ossowiec DE.A Occupation of & 23/8/1915 commemorative First World War Capture of & 23/8/1915 Eastern Front (?) & Tykocin | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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