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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 117
reverse text: "KAPITULATION VON MAUBEUGE 40000 GEFANG.400 GESCHÜTZE EROB.D.7.SEPTEMBER 1914" (embossed in six lines on plain background) &
"31" (embossed in very small characters at upper left edge)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
31 in a series of over a hundred coin-sized pieces in silver, chronicling German naval and military successes of the first two years of the
First World War. The obverse bears the standard design for the series, a winged figure of Victory holding a flaming sword and victor's
laurel wreath crown together with an inscription 'GOTT SEGNETE UNSERE TAPFEREN HEERE' ('God hath blessed our valiant Armies'). The reverse
text commemorates the German capture of Maubeuge and is translated as 'Capitulation of Maubeuge 40,000 prisoners, 400 cannon captured on 7
September 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Capture of & 7/9/1914 = 8/9/1914 DE.A Western Front & German Offensive 1914 & Maubeuge commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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