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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "WINTERSCHLACHT IN DER CHAMPAGNE SCHEITERN D. FRANZ DURCHBRUCHS-VERSUCHS 16.FEBR.-10.MÄRZ 1915" (embossed in five lines and
around upper and lower edges) & "67" (embossed in very small characters at centre left edge)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
67 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 German resistance to French offensive operations in Champagne in early
1915 and is translated as 'Winter battle in the Champagne, collapse of the French attempts to breakthrough, 16 February to 10 March
1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.A Western Front & Champagne French Offensive in the & 16/2/1915 = 10/3/1915 commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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