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Description: | 800 SILBER
in small, sloping characters
obverse design: Feldmarschall August von Mackensen, bust, face slightly inclined to left, in uniform. At centre right edge
a short olive branch and around left edge text
obverse text: "v.MACKENSEN"
reverse design: soldier, German infantryman, standing as sentinel facing left, in full-kit and pickelhaube, holding rifle with muzzle
pointing towards the ground. In the left background a large barracks-like building, smoke issuing from its windows
reverse text: "BREST-LITOWSK 1915"
First World War medal by Fritz Eue commemorating the German field commander Feldmarschall August von Mackensen (1849-
1945) and the capture, from the Russians, of the strategically important city of Brest-Litovsk (with its vital railway junction) on 28
August 1915. One in a large series of patriotic medallic tributes to senior German military and naval commanders produced by the artist
during the war. Von Mackensen fought in all the important offensives on the Eastern Front during the First World War. In April 1915 he was
given command of the Eleventh Army and following his success at Gorlice-Tarnow in May he was promoted Field Marshal (June 1915). He went on
to control the Austro-German invasion of Serbia in September 1915 and afterwards commanded the Danube Army during the conquest of Rumania.
He served as commander of the Austro-German occupation forces in Rumania until the end of the war. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Weapons DE.A August von portrait / personification Capture of & 26/8/1915 Eastern Front & Brest-Litovsk commemorative First World War Mackensen | 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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