Interalled Victory Medal (Italy)
The Interallied Victory Medal ( it. Medaglia interalleata della vittoria ) was on December 16, 1920 by decree no. 1918/20 by King Victor Emanuel III. donated by Italy . It was awarded to all those members of the Italian Armed Forces who were involved on the Italian front on the side of the Allies during the First World War . It was one of a total of eleven Allied victory medals . Another requirement for the award was at least four months of service under Italian command. In 1946 the awards were stopped. Around two million medals had been issued up to this point.
Appearance and wearing style
The bronze-colored medal with a diameter of 36 mm shows the goddess of victory Victoria with angel wings on her obverse , who carries the torch of freedom in her right hand. The goddess stands on a pedestal, which is pulled by four lions on a rope. Under the lions are the inscriptions G. Orsolini Mod and the manufacturers. In this picture the company FMLorioli & Castles - Milan . The reverse of the medal shows a consecration vessel from which two doves with laurel branches in their beaks fly to the left and right. Next to the vessel are the Roman dates MCMXIV (1914) and MCMXVIII (1918), which stand for the beginning and the end of the world war. GRANDE GVERRA PER LA CIVILTA (The Great War for Civilization) can be read above the pigeons in a semicircular inscription . Finally, on the lower edge of the medal, the two-line inscription: AI COMBATTENTI DELLE NAZIONI / ALLEATE ED ASSOCIATE (The front fighters of the allied and associated nations) was applied.
The medal was worn on the upper left side of the chest of the borrower on a rainbow-colored ribbon with the color combination: blue-green-yellow-orange-red-orange-yellow-green-blue, with the color red in the middle.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ottfried Neubecker : The Italian order system . In: Uniformen-Markt , ZDB -ID 331317-7 , year 1936, p. 56.