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Description: | obverse design: Crown Prince Wilhelm, head, left profile, in uniform and headdress of Death's Head Hussar
obverse text: "WILHELM KRONPRINZ V.PREVSSEN"
reverse design: candles, two, alight, the base of each resting upon a sprig of fir, the stem of the fir being positioned at centre base of
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reverse text: "WEIHNACHT IM FELD 1915"
This small decorative Christmas medal by Goetz (1875-1950) includes a portrait of Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951),
eldest of the Kaiser's five sons and commander of the German 5th Army. The second Christmas of the war is commemorated in the reverse
design by the second lighted candle on the fir sprig and the reverse text is translated as 'Christmas in the field 1915'. See MED 63 for
Goetz's 1914 Christmas medal. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.A Wilhelm portrait / personification commemorative First World War & Christmas 1915 Crown Prince of Germany | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Goetz, Karl | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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