Waterloo Medal
The Waterloo Medal was a campaign medal of the Duchy of Brunswick. The medal was awarded to troops and officers from Brunswick who participated in the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo.
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Waterloo Medal
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- Waterloo Medal
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- 1818.
- Region
- Duchy of Brunswick.
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The Waterloo Medal was a campaign medal of the Duchy of Brunswick. The medal was awarded to troops and officers from Brunswick who participated in the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo.
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• Name — Waterloo Medal • Presenter — Duchy of Brunswick • Type — Campaign medal • Eligibility — Officers and soldiers of Brunswick • Awarded For — Service in the Waterloo Campaign from 15 June to 7 July 1815. • Established — 11 June 1818
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The medal is round and made of bronze from captured French cannons, medals for officers were gilded. The medal is 1+7/20 in in diameter. The obverse depicts, in a left facing profile, the fallen Duke of Brunswick, Frederick William. Around the edge is the inscription, in German Script, FRIEDRICH WILHELM HERZOG. The reverse of the medal bears the date 1815 in the centre, surrounded by a wreath of oak and laurels. Around the outside of the wreath is the inscription, Braunschweig Seinen Kriegern (Brunswick to her Warriors) above, and Quatrebras und Waterloo below. The medal is suspended from a steel clip and ring attached to a ribbon 1+1/2 in wide. The ribbon is yellow with blue edge stripes 3/8 in wide.
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1818
Waterloo Medal first recorded.
Other Waterloo Medals
Five nations of Seventh Coalition struck medals for soldiers who took part in the campaign: • This medal for the troops of Brunswick • Waterloo Medal for British and King's German Legion troops • Hanoverian Waterloo Medal • Nassau Waterloo Medal • Prussian Waterloo Medal
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- 1.Wolfgang Leschhorn: Braunschweigische Münzen und Medaillen. 1000 Jahre Münzkunst und Geldgeschichte in Stadt und Land Braunschweig ( = Braunschweigisches Kunsthandwerk (BKH), Bd. 3), Braunschweig: Appelhans, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941737-22-8, S. 78; Leseprobe auf der Seite appelhans-verlag.de
- 2.Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Waterloo-Ehrenducaten, in ders.: Ordensbuch sämtlicher in Europa blühender und erloschener Orden und Ehrenzeichen. Rudolph & Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, S. 74–75; Digitalisat der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
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