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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "EINNAHME DER FESTUNGEN ROZAN UND PULTUSK D.D. ARMEE GALLWITZ 23.JULI 1915" (embossed around edge and in five lines on plain
background) & "90" (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
90 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 Austro-German (Army Group Gallwitz) operations on the Eastern Front (in
northern Poland) and is translated as 'Capture of the fortresses of Rozan and Pultusk by the Gallwitz Army, 23 July
1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Rozan and Pultusk DE.A Capture of & 23/7/1915 Max Karl Wilhelm von commemorative First World War Gallwitz | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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