War memorial
War medals ( campaign medals , remembrance crosses etc.) were religious decorations , as opposed to the actual decorations not individuals were awarded as a special award, but to all those involved in its duty in a military campaign or a specific action.
Examples
Germany
The war memorials were usually worn on the chest like the medals and decorations on ribbons. The medal shape was the most common. Often they were made from the metal of captured guns . War memorials for combatants and non-combatants were distinguished by shape, type of metal, ribbon or inscription . Sometimes the distinction went even further ( Düppeler Sturmkreuz , Alsenkreuz , war memorial for the campaigns 1870-71 ).
- Frankfurt am Main
- War memorial 1813/1814 (Frankfurt am Main)
- War memorial for 1815 (Frankfurt am Main)
- War memorial 1848–1849
- Hanover
- War memorial coin 1813 (Hanover)
- War memorial 1814 (Hanover)
- Waterloo Medal (Hanover)
- Hanseatic cities
- War memorial of the Hanseatic Legion
- Hessen-Homburg
- Field service mark for the 1849 campaign (Hessen-Homburg)
- Hessen-Kassel
- War memorial coin for 1814-1815 (donated in 1821)
- Isenburg
- War memorial 1814 (Isenburg)
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg)
- Reuss older line, Reuss younger line
- Memorial cross for Eckernförde
- Saxony-Altenburg
- Commemorative medal for the 1849 campaign
- Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Memorial cross for Eckernförde
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- Memorial cross for the 1849 campaign
- Württemberg
- Crosses for the 1815 campaign
- Commemorative coin for the fight against Baden 1849
- War memorial coin (Württemberg)
- German Empire
- War memorial for the campaigns 1870–71 (German Empire)
France
Great Britain
Netherlands
- for the campaign against the Sultanate of Aceh
Austria-Hungary
Russia
- for the conquest of Khiva
- for participation in the Russo-Ottoman War (1877–1878)