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piece : obverse design : Victory, holding a sword in her right hand, flying to right above a French St Chamond tank which is lumbering to
right over a trench and barbed wire entanglement
piece : reverse design : shield, having a plain circular boss and an outside edge decorated with laurel leaves and flowers
Association - event: St Chamond tanks, designed as self-propelled guns with the aim of providing artillery support that
could advance with the infantry, first appeared on the Western Front battlefield in April 1917. Armed with a 75 mm gun and four Hotchkiss
machine guns, its tracks were electrically driven | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Allegory Western Front & 1917 FR.A & [armoured units] commemorative | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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