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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "ERSTÜRMUNG DER GRODEK-STELLUNG, MAGIEROW- GRODEK DURCH DAS BESKIDEN KORPS 19.VI.1915" (embossed around upper and lower edges
and in five lines on plain background) & "80" (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
80 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 the Austro-German military operations on the Eastern Front (north east of
Warsaw) and is translated as 'Storming of the Grodek Line, Magierow-Grodek by the Beskiden Corps, 19 June 1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Assault on & 19/6/1915 DE.A Eastern Front & Grodek-Line commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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