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obverse design : sailor, standing facing right, shaking hands with a Royal Navy seaman who stands facing him. In the left background five
merchant seamen and in the right background Royal Navy sailors in caps, standing holding oars, vertically, blades uppermost
reverse text : "THE NETHERLAND SECTION OF THE LEAGUE OF NEUTRAL COUNTRIES TO" & "IN GRATEFUL COMMEMORATION OF THE SERVICES TENDERED BY THE
ENGLISH SAILORS WHO RESCUED WITH PERIL OF LIFE THE CREWS OF SEVEN UNARMED DUTCH MERCHANT-MEN SURREPTITIOUSLY ATTACKED AND RECKLESSLY
DESTROYED BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE FEBRUARY 22ND 1917" (embossed in eleven lines with space for recipient's name, on plain background and
enclosed by beaded circle)
Association - event: Gibson and Prendergast's account of the event differs from the details supplied on the medallion.
They write 'Hersing, returning from the Adriatic in U21, attacked the eight Dutch steamers (to which a safe-conduct had been guaranteed)
off Falmouth...sinking six of them' | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | First World War & Submarine Operations German & Neutral Shipping DE.N & U21 Royal Navy Sinking of & 22/2/1917 NL.O & [mercantile marine] commemorative | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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