IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141274
accession number:	CM.1180-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After Germany's diplomacy successfully induced Ottoman Turkey to join the Great War on Germany's side, a substantial naval force was amassed by the Allies against Turkey. Key to its operations was control of the Dardanelles Strait between the Aegean Sea and Sea of Marmora.
A large naval force was assembled to force passage through the Straits, but heavy losses necessitated a change of plan to infantry assault on the Gallipolli Peninsula to take control of the Straits overland. A force principally composed of Australian and New Zealand troops, supported with British home units and French marines, was landed and held on on the Peninsula for ten dogged months, mounting numerous ineffective offensives while naval support dwindled. Turkish resistance on all fronts proved more solid than had ever been anticipated and the troops were finally withdrawn in October when Bulgaria joined the war on the German side.
French troops who survived this theatre, in which French forces took nearly as many casualties as the Australians, were in 1926 awarded this medal. The piece is unnamed, and the identity of its recipient thus unknown. Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.
title:	Médaille Commémorative des Dardanelles

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141274





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1926 - 1926
creation date earliest:	1926
creation date latest:	1926

CREATORS
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maker: Paris
maker: France
maker: Lindauer, M.
maker: Colmar, Paris

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 29.2

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 18.4



CITATIONS
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British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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