Medal
1917 (made)
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This bronze medal was made by Henri Allouard in France, 1917. The blank space on the memorial on the obverse underlines the subject of this medal, the hundreds of thousands who fell in the battlefields and have no known graves.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Bronze |
| Brief description | Medal, Aux Héros Inconnus, struck bronze, by Henri Allouard, French, 20th century, 1917 |
| Physical description | Obv., two female personifications, possibly Victory and Fame, flank a memorial with an urn on top of it. To the right Fame, crowned with oak and carrying the marty's palm, stands on the base of the memorial and drapes a flag over the urn. To the left Victory, winged and crowned with laurels, sits with her trumpet and indicates with her right hand the inscription on the memorial. Rev., an angel, holding the marty's palm frond and a wreath of oak leaves, hovers over dead and dying soldiers and the wreckage of battle. In the background, a rising sun. The edge has the incuse cornucopia of Paris Mint mark and BRONZE. |
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| Summary | This bronze medal was made by Henri Allouard in France, 1917. The blank space on the memorial on the obverse underlines the subject of this medal, the hundreds of thousands who fell in the battlefields and have no known graves. |
| Bibliographic reference | Cullen, Lucy, Fisher, Wendy and Jopek, Norbert, 'One by One': European Commemorative Medals for the Great War 1914-1918, London : Victoria & Albert Museum, 1998
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| Accession number | A.104-1920 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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