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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "ERSTÜRMUNG VON BREST-LITOWSK D.D.VERBÜND TRUPPEN D.BUGARMEE 26.AUG.1915" (embossed around upper and lower edges and in five
lines on plain background) & "101" (embossed in very small characters at upper left edge)
German First World War patriotic 'victory' medalet (or 'Victory penny', designed to be worn on a watch chain), number
101 in a series of well 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 Austro-German military operations on the Eastern Front (Russian Poland) and
is translated as 'The allied troops of the Bug Army take Brest-Litovsk by storm, 26 August 1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.A Capture of & 26/8/1915 Eastern Front & Brest-Litovsk commemorative First World War AH.A | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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