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Description: | whole: cross pattée, crudely cast in iron in the form of a German Iron Cross, with a small suspension ring at the tip of
the upper vertical arm.
obverse design: at the centre of the cross an embossed initial 'W', above which is a small Latin cross. At the tips of arms, names of
cities despoiled by the Germans during their 1914 western offensive.
obverse text: 'DINANT' (upper vertical arm) & 'GHENT' (right horizontal arm) & '1914' (lower vertical arm) & 'ANTWERP' (left horizontal
arm)
reverse text: 'LOUVAIN' (upper vertical arm) & 'AMIENS' (malformed, right horizontal arm) & '1914' (lower vertical arm) & 'RHEIMS' (left
horizontal arm)
A British First World War anti-German propaganda medal exploiting the destruction of Belgian and French cities on or
near the Western Front by the German Army between August and October 1914. Jones and Howell (in 'Popular Arts of the First World War')
describe this item as one of a series of 'joke Iron Crosses made in Britain bearing the names of Belgian (sic) towns bombarded by the
Germans'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Alleged & 8/1914 - 10/1914 Western Front & Atrocities German commemorative First World War propaganda | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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