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Description: | "F.Eue" in small indented sloping script
"VERL.BALL BERLIN" in small indented characters
whole : model
obverse design : Kapitänleutnant von Mücke, bust, full face slightly inclined to left, in uniform
obverse text : "VON MÜCKE"
reverse design : camel-mounted figures, three, the central figure carrying a German ensign. A fourth figure walks from right to left behind
the group and a fourth camel sits in the foreground. In the left and right background respectively, a mosque-like building and two
pyramids
exergue : "KAPITÄNLEUTNANT v.MÜCKE IN DER WÜSTE 1915."
Association - person and event: Kapitänleutnant von Mücke, of SMS Emden, had been landed with 50 men and 2 other
officers on Direction Island in order to destroy the wireless and telegraph station. The party was marooned there after the destruction of
the Emden, by HMAS Sydney, but made use of the sailing ship Ayesha to reach Padang, Sumatra. The Ayesha later encountered the SS Choising,
one time supply ship to the Emden, in the open sea. Von Mücke commandeered the Choising, scuttling the Ayesha, and safely made the port of
Hodeida in Southern Arabia. After a false start the party made their way overland, via the Syrian Desert, to
Constantinople | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Mücke DE.N & Ayesha (sailing ship Emden II) portrait / personification First World War & (von) Mücke's Journey from Keeling Islands to Constantinople & 9/11/1914 = 3/2/1915 von (Kapitänleutnant) commemorative | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Eue, F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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