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Military and Related Tokens and Medals
H
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appear on the published roll of Dewey Medal recipients as a
Ship’s Cook, First Class.
USS Baltimore was an armored cruiser commissioned in 1890.
Under the command of Captain Nehemiah Dyer, who had served
under Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay, Baltimore took her place
second in Admiral George Dewey’s battle line as the American
fleet destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay on 1 May 1898.
Baltimore suffered the fleet’s only casualties, as two officers and
six men were wounded by Spanish shell fragments. (H)
56.
RARE BOER WAR LORD ROBERTS: MILITARY
CAMPAIGN
CHRONOLOGY
MEDAL,
1900.
Hern: 388; Laidlaw: 0247. 37.7mm. Unsigned. Brilliant White
Metal. Proof. Obverse: Within a laurel wreath tied at the bottom,
bareheaded bust of Roberts in uniform, front. Legend: “FIELD-
MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS V.C.” Reverse: In the centre,
a circle with: “SOUTH AFRICA 1900” around a small rose.
Above is a view of the Raadsaal (parliament) in Pretoria, GOVT.
/ BUILDINGS (left) PRETORIA (right). Below in 9 “spokes”
radiating from the center circle is inscribed the main events,
places, and dates of Robert’s military campaign. From the top
left, anti-clockwise.
“WAR / DECLARED / OCT. 11. 99”
“LD. ROBERTS/ LANDED /CAPETOWN / JAN 4TH.”
“RELIEF OF / KIMBERLEY / FEB. 15TH.”
“SURRENDER / OF /CRONJE / FEB. 27TH.”
“RELIEF OF / LADYSMITH / FEB 28TH.”
“BLOEMFONTEIN / OCCUPIED / MARCH 13TH.”
“JOHANNESBURG / OCCUPIED / MAY 31ST.”
“RELIEF OF / MAFEKING / MAY 18TH.”
“PRETORIA / OCCUPIED / JUNE 5
TH
(F)
57.
NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA EXPERT
MARKSMAN BADGE, ND.
Unlisted in Ogletree. 35mm +
dangle. 14k gold (.445 oz.) (J.K. Davison) with white enamel.
Mint condition. Central keystone – guardsman with rifle; targets
in the background. AS surrounding band is inscribed: EXPERT
MARKSMAN N. G. P. Keystone dangle inscribed: 14/ YEARS,
Our consigner states that he purchased this badge from the
Estate of Colonel Quinton O. Reitzel of Lancaster, PA. Co. B
4
th
NGP. Unlisted by Ogletree – probably turn of the century or
thereabouts. (G-H)
58.
FIELD MARSHALL GRAF VON HAESELER, 1915.
Frankenhuis 703; Steguweit 109. 100.6m. Cast Bronze.
(The usual example is found in cast iron.) Arthur Lowental,
Sc. Edge marked: DS20 37. About Uncirculated. Obverse:
FELDMARSCHAL GRAF VON HAESELER 1915. around a
bust to the right of the Prussian Field Marshall wearing a spiked
helmet. Reverse: CHIRON ACHILL to either side of a scene
depicting Von Haeseler, in the form of the centaur, Chiron,
instructing a nude figure of Achilles in the use of a bow and
arrow.
Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler (1836-1919) was promoted to the
rank of field marshal in January 1905. He was 78 years old at
the Great War’s outbreak and thus never received command
of an army. Instead, he acted as senior military advisor to the
otherwise capable XVI. Army Corps commander von Mudra.
Haeseler’s importance lies primarily in his efforts to achieve a
thorough military training of soldiers and his depiction as Chiron,
the teacher, is meant to convey that thought.
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