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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "LABOD+RE BIS ESELNASE GESTÜRMT.ARGONNEN-KÄMPFE 20.VI:2.VII.1915" (embossed around upper and lower edges and in three lines
on plain background) & "84" (embossed in very small characters at upper left of piece)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
84 in a series of over a hundred small coin-sized pieces in silver, chronicling German naval and military successes, and those of her
allies, in 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 the variant inscription 'GOTT SEGNETE DIE VEREINIGTEN HEERE' ('God
hath blessed the allied Armies'). The reverse text commemorates German military operations on the Western Front and is translated as
'Labodère to Eselnase stormed, Argonne battles, 20 June to 2 July 1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.A Western Front & Labodère-Eselnase commemorative German Attack on & 20/6/1915 = 2/7/1915 First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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