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Description: | obverse design : General von Beseler, bust, full face, in uniform. Around the edge of piece a narrow, ornamental, laurel
wreath border
obverse text : "GENERAL v.BESELER"
reverse design : German field gun battery in action, firing to right. In the left background buildings and in the distance hills. Around
the edge of piece a narrow, ornamental, laurel wreath border
reverse text : "DIE EROBERUNG VON NOWO-GEORGIEWSK 19.AUG.1915" (embossed in 3 lines)
German First World War large format portrait medal (in iron) by Fritz Eue commemorating General Hans Hartwig von
Beseler (1850-1921), one in a series of patriotic medallic tributes to senior German military and naval commanders produced by the artist
during the war. In 1914 von Hesler was recalled out of retirement and given comand of the III Reserve Corps for the advance into Belgium.
In October 1914 he successfully secured the port of Antwerp and in the following month his forces were actively engaged in the fighting
along the River Yser. By spring 1915 he had been transferred to the Eastern Front. This medal specifically commemorates von Beseler's part
in the capture of Novo-Georgievsk (Russian Poland) on 19 August 1915 and the reverse text is translated as 'The conqueror of Novo
Georgievsk'. As a consequence of this victory, the bulk of Russian Poland fell into German hands. Beseler was appointed German military
governor of Poland that same month and remained in office there until the day after the armistice in 1918. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & Poland DE.A Capture of & 19/8/1915 German Offensive in & Novo-Georgievsk portrait / personification Beseler commemorative Artillery von (General) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ball's of Berlin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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