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Description: | G.800
design : battle scene - French cuirassiers charging German infantry. In the background a French standard bearer and a
smoke-filled sky. In the foreground dead and wounded soldiers are trampled in the mêlée
Commemorative medal produced by the Swiss firm of Huguenin. Probably designed by Henri Huguenin (1879-1920), the
Huguenin company's artist and medal maker during the period of the First World War. The anachronistic imagery of the design was in fact
rooted in reality as the French Army of 1914, fiercely resistant to change, went to war dressed in out of date and brightly coloured
uniforms. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | FR.A & [cavalry] Western Front & 1914 = 1915 commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Huguenin, André | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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