fme_1123461 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille de guerre, 1939-1945
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Type : Médaille de guerre, 1939-1945
Date: 1945
Metal : nickel
Diameter : 50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 32,35 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces d’usure, rayures et quelques points d’oxydation
Obverse
Obverse legend : GEORGIVS VI D : - G: BR : OMN : REX ET INDIAE IMP:.
Obverse description : Tête couronnée à gauche du roi Georges VI, signé : PM.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 1939 / 1945.
Reverse description : Lion de profil écrasant un griffon.
Commentary
Diamètre sans bélière : 36 mm
Ruban rouge avec une bande centrale bleu, blanc et rouge et une épingle ouvragée en métal doré.
Diameter without bail: 36 mm. Red ribbon with a central blue, white and red stripe and an ornate gold-tone metal pin.
Ruban rouge avec une bande centrale bleu, blanc et rouge et une épingle ouvragée en métal doré.
Diameter without bail: 36 mm. Red ribbon with a central blue, white and red stripe and an ornate gold-tone metal pin.
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI
(11/12/1936-6/02/1952)
Georges VI (14/12/1895-6/02/1952) is the youngest son of Georges V and Mary de Treck. He is the brother of Edward VIII who succeeded Georges V on January 20, 1936, but who was forced to abdicate the same year because he decided to marry Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice divorced, and because his Germanophilia displeases strongly to power circles in England. George VI has two daughters, Elisabeth and Margaret. During the Second World War, he was the symbol of English resistance to Nazism. After the war, in 1947 he had to ratify the independence of the Indian Empire which, after a horrible civil war, was divided to form India and Pakistan. He died of cancer in 1952.
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