fme_1173340 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
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Type : Médaille, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Date: (1916)
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 44,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver LEGASTELOIS Julien Prosper (1855-1931)
Weight : 45,30 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène légèrement irisée. Traces de nettoyage. Quelques rayures et concrétions noires d’oxydation à l’avers et au revers. Petits coups sur la tranche
Catalogue references :
CMP.- - Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de ParisND5539
Obverse
Obverse legend : LORD KITCHENER - FIELD-MARSHAL.
Obverse description : Buste en tenue militaire de face, accosté de branches de laurier. Signé : J. P. LEGASTELOIS.
Reverse
Reverse legend : THOROUGH.
Reverse description : Figure féminine cuirassée, casquée et tenant un bouclier de l’Angleterre à gauche du drapeau. Signé : J. P. LEGASTELOIS.
Commentary
Horatio Herbert Kitchener,(1850-1916), est un maréchal et homme politique britannique. Son portrait figure sur l'affiche de propagande pour le recrutement de la British Army durant la Première Guerre mondiale.
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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