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Description: | obverse design and text: see MED 169
reverse text: "9 TÄGIGE WINTER-SCHLACHT IN MASUREN VERNICHTUNG D.X.RUSS.ARMEE 8.-16.FEBR.1915" (embossed around upper and lower edges and
in six lines on plain background) & "64" (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
64 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 Eastern Front (the frontier of East
Prussia), specifically the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, and is translated as the '9 days winter-battle in Masuria, the destruction
of the 10th Russian Army, 8-16 February 1915'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | DE.A Second Battle of the & 8/2/1915 = 16/2/1915 Eastern Front & Masurian Lakes commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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