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Description: | obverse design : (see) MED 790
piece reverse text : "IN MEMORY" (at centre of plain reverse) & "ST GEORGE'S DAY APRIL 23 RD 1918." (upper edge) & "ST GEORGE'S DAY APRIL
23 RD 1926" (lower edge)
Medal by Josuë Dupon (1864-1935) commemorating the eighth anniversary of the British naval raid on the Belgian port of
Zeebrugge (23 April 1918). Dupon re-used the obverse design employed in his earlier version of MAGNAE BRITANIAE (see MED 790) and combined
it with new reverse text to commemorate the inauguration of a monument some 46 feet high at the end of the Mole at Zeebrugge harbour in
1925. This monument, as befitted a memorial to an event which occurred on St George's day, was surmounted by a bronze sculpture of St
George and the dragon. In 1942 the entire memorial was destroyed by the Germans and the bronze sculpture melted down. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | memorial Royal Navy Naval Operations commemorative Raid on & 23/4/1918 North Sea & Zeebrugge | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Dupon, Josuë | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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