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Description: | whole : model
obverse design : soldiers, two Austro-Hungarian field engineers, sappers, in trench. One, standing facing left at rear, holds a long narrow
rod, the other, crouching facing left, manipulates a long fuse line. In the sky a figure symbolic of Victory holding a wreath. At lower
right edge a scroll bearing text
obverse text : "VNSERE SAPPEVRE"
reverse design : cross, Greek, bearing a date on each of its arms and the letters "KKB" enclosed by a raised edged square at its centre.
The cross rests upon a stylised flaming circle which is in turn enclosed by three raised, beaded edged, circles
reverse text : "1914" (left horizontal arm of cross) & "1915" (upper vertical arm) & "1916" (right horizontal arm) & "1917" (lower vertical
arm) & "ROTES KREVZ-KRIEGSHILFSBÜRO-KRIEGSFÜRSORGEAMT" (outer edge) | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | First World War & 1914 = 1917 AH.A & [engineers] commemorative | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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