|
Date: |
|
Description: | obverse design : Red Cross War Dog, Alsatian, head, left profile, wearing Red Cross collar band
obverse text : "IM. DIENSTE. DES. WELTKRIEGES. 1914"
reverse design : Red Cross War Dog accompanying a wounded soldier who is carried by two soldiers away from the battlefield, wire
entanglement to left. In the right background a vertical panel bearing the text - "ERST MALIGE VERWEN DVNG DER SANITÄTS
HVNDE"
This First World War medal by Goetz commemorates conventionally and realistically the first use and work of the German
Red Cross dogs during active military operations in 1914. The obverse text is translated as 'On duty during the World War' and the text on
the reverse as 'Red Cross Dogs utilised for the first time'. Dogs were also later employed in a communications role (message carrying) by
both the German and British armies. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Animals DE.O & German Red Cross & German Red Cross War Dogs First World War & 1914 commemorative | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Goetz, Karl | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
|