Medal commemorating the Gallipoli campaign

Medal commemorating the Gallipoli campaign. Obverse: Within a band (right) shaped like the Turkish crescent moon, a Highlander carrying a model of a steamer; below, a French soldier on one knee firing a rifle, inscription (left). Inscription (in the field, left): 'DIE MONDSVCHTIGEN . AUF GALLIPOLI.' (The lunatics at Gallipoli.) Reverse: Two skeletons lying in the trenches, barbed wire entanglements fading into the distance (right), crescent and star above (the fate of the French and British soldier shown on the obverse.) Legend: '1915, 1916.'

Object Details

ID: MEC2357
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Medal
Display location: Display - Forgotten Fighters
Creator: Goetz, Karl
Places: Germany
Events: World War I: Gallipoli campaign, 1915-1916; World War I, 1914-1918
Date made: 1916
People: Goetz, Karl
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 56 mm