Medal cast

Two casts, obverse and reverse, of a commemorative medal. 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: SEC1441
Type: Medal cast
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Goetz, Karl
Events: World War I, 1914-1918
Date made: 1915; 1915-16
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wellcome Collection
Measurements: Overall: 5 mm x 51 mm