Peninsula Medal (Braunschweig)

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The Peninsula Medal , also known as the “Medal of Honor for the Campaigns in Spain and Portugal”, was donated by Duke Carl II of Braunschweig on October 30, 1824 and could be awarded to all soldiers serving in English-Braunschweig services on the Iberian Peninsula (Peninsula) fought against the French from 1810 to 1814. The winners belonged to a hussar and infantry regiment.

For officers made of silver , otherwise of bronze , the front of the medal shows a shield surrounded by war trophies . On it the initial of the founder C(Carl). On the reverse the inscription PENINSULA surrounded by an oak branch on the left and a laurel branch on the right.

The award was worn on a crimson ribbon on the left chest.

Commemorative Medal Peninsula 1909

For the centenary of the Brunswick Hussar Regiment No. 17 in 1909, Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg donated a commemorative medal with the inscription PENINSULA on the reverse under a skull with two crossed bones above the year 1809–1909. The regiment was also known as the "skull and crossbones", which refers to the headgear that was provided with a skull and crossbones. The round medal was made of bronze. The front showed the portrait of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig , turned to the left, with a circumferential inscription FRIEDRICH - WILHELM - HERZOG - ZU - BRAUNSCHWEIG and below the portrait a star with five points.

literature

  • Roger Reckewell, Jens Fischer: Order, badge of honor and badge of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg from 1809 to 1918. Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1987 ( work reports , publications from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig 54), ISSN  0934-6147 .
  • Ferdinand von Biedenfeld : Blooming orders . tape 2 . Voigt, Weimar 1841, p. 186 ( books.google.de - Figure 11, panel VII, Duchy of Braunschweig at the end of the book).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Adolph Ackermann: XIII. Braunschweig. B. Medal of Honor - 5th Medal of Honor for the campaigns in Spain and Portugal. In: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations. Rudolph & Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 75 ( bsb3.bsb.lrz.de ).
  2. ↑ H. Schulze: Chronicle of all known knight orders and decorations, which are awarded by sovereigns and governments, together with images of the decorations. Volume 1. Moeser and Kühn, Berlin 1853, pp. 162-163 ( archive.org ).
  3. ^ Peninsula Commemorative Medal. Antique Photos, accessed April 27, 2018 (UK English).