Interallied Victory Medal (Czechoslovakia)

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The Inter-Allied Victory Medal ( cz. Mezispojenecká medaile za vítězství ) was founded in 1919 by the Czechoslovak government in accordance with the Victory medals of other countries in memory of the victory of the Allies of World War I donated. It was one of a total of eleven Allied victory medals . The number of awards it received amounted to around 89,500 people.

Appearance and wearing style

The Czechoslovakian design of the medal goes back to Otakar Španiel . The bronze medal shows Victoria , the goddess of victory in the center of her obverse , who in the Czechoslovakian version of the medal shows a sword in its scabbard in her left hand and a laurel branch in her right hand. The reverse , on the other hand, shows the small national coat of arms of Czechoslovakia surrounded by the inscription SVĚTOVÁ VÁLKA (above) ZA CIVILIZACI (below). (The world war for civilization). The same saying can be found on all victory medals in the corresponding national language. The only exception is the Portuguese. A banner with the years 1914 (left) and 1918 (right) can be seen from the central coat of arms .

The medal was worn on a rainbow-colored ribbon on the upper left side of the chest of the borrower, which begins with blue in the Czechoslovak variant and runs towards the center in yellow-orange-red. The color red is the central color from which the color gradient to blue is repeated on the right side.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Czechoslovak Order, printed in the magazine Uniformen Markt 1937, No. 3, p. 45