Orders, Decorations & Medals - Gallipoli
Lot 3640 Session 12 (11.30am Thursday 26 March) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Gallipoli
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $800
GERMANY, WWI, The Sleepwalkers on the Gallipoli Peninsula, cast medal in bronze (57mm) by Karl Goetz, recording the disastrous British naval and land campaigns in Turkey, 1915-16, obverse, depicts the English and French 'sleepwalkers' standing inside of the Turkish crescent, 'Die Mondsuchtigen auf Gallipoli', reverse shows them reduced to skeletons (Kinast 169). Extremely fine and rare.
The only WW1 German commemorative medal with direct reference to the Gallipoli campaign.
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