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Description: | Medal commemorating the loss of the airship 'L19', 1916. Obverse: Men on one end of an airship, partly submerged, shaking their fists at a trawler steaming away in the distance. Above: 'L.19', the setting sun behind. Reverse: Beneath heavenly eye, inscription, 'FLVCH . DEN . BRITEN ZVR . SEE . FLVCH . EVREM SCHLECHTEN . GEWISSEN HILFESVCHENDE . SCHIFF BRVECHIGE . HABEN . VNTER . GEHEN MVESSEN.' (Curses on the British at sea, curses on your bad conscience. Shipwrecked men seeking help, must go down.) Below: A pair of scales; between them: '2 . 2 . 1916.'
caption: Medal commemorating the loss of the airship 'L19', 1916; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating the loss of the airship 'L19', 1916; reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | medals Karl Goetz | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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