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Description: | DS 18 1U
in small, faint characters
obverse design: Kommandant Otto Weddigen, bust, full face slightly inclined to left, in uniform and cap
obverse text: "OTTO WEDDIGEN" & "KOMMANDANT.AUF 'U29'"
reverse design: Viking, full length figure facing left, wearing mail armour and winged helmet, standing in the stern of a sinking vessel,
bows submerged. He holds a spear, point uppermost, in his right hand and grips the tiller with his left arm as he looks up at two wheeling
sea birds
reverse text: "EWIG.UNVERGESSEN.BLEIBE-KÜHNER.WIKING-DEINE. TODESFART"
Association - event: U29 was rammed and sunk by HMS Dreadnought, there were no survivors | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Destruction of by HMS Dreadnought & 18/3/1915 Otto Eduard portrait / personification North Sea & U29 Weddigen DE.N & U29 commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Loewental, A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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