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Description: | obverse design: General Otto von Emmich, bust, face slightly inclined to left, in uniform
obverse text: "v.EMMICH"
reverse design: warrior, young male full-length figure, naked except for helmet adorned with eagle, facing and moving to left, holding a
long trumpet to his lips with his left hand and a flaming torch in his right. In the distance the walls and towers of the fortress-city of
Liège engulfed in flames. Hovering above the city, to the left, a Zeppelin
reverse text: "LÜTTICH" & "7.8.1914" | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Capture of & 7/8/1914 DE.A Otto von Emmich portrait / personification commemorative Western Front & German Offensive 1914 & Liège First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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