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Description: | reverse text: "EINZUG D.21.ARMEEKORPS IN LUNEVILLE D.23.AUGUST 1914" (embossed in five lines on plain background) & "17"
(embossed in very faint and 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
17 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 occupation of the French town of Lunéville (Lorraine) and is translated as 'Entry of the 21st Army Corps into
Lunéville on 23 August 1914'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Entry of the German Army into & 23/8/1914 21 DE.A & Corps Western Front & Frontiers Battle of the & Lunéville commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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