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Medal - Gabrielle Petit

Medal - Gabrielle Petit - obverseMedal - Gabrielle Petit - reverse

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Features

Location Belgium
Type Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year 2016
Composition Gold (.990) plated copper-nickel (24 karat gold plating)
Weight 22 g
Diameter 38.6 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
297055

Commemorative issue

100 years Gabrielle Petit

Obverse

Half length image of Gabrielle Petit looking over the right shoulder with text 1916-2016 in radiating sun in background

Lettering:
GABRIELLE PETIT
1916
2016
NATIONALE HELDIN - HÉROÏNE NATIONALE

Translation: National heroine

Reverse

Image divided in 4 quarters
Upper left: partial third verse of In Flanders Fields poem in French
Upper right: Belgian lion
Lower left: BE 14 18 with image of a poppy
Lower right: partial first verse of In Flanders Fields poem in English

Lettering:
BE 14
🏵 18

SABUS
L'ORIFLAMM
FOND DE L'ÂM
VIVRE EN LIBERTÉ
TEZ LE DÉFI SINON
LICOT SE FANERONT
CHAMP D'HONNEUR.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS
BETWEEN THE CROS
THAT MARK OUR PL
THE LARKS STILL
CARCE HEARD
VE ARE THE
E LIVED

Translation:
[À vous jeunes désabusés
À vous de porter l'oriflamme
Et de garder au fond de l'âme
Le goût de vivre en liberté.
Acceptez le défi, sinon
Les coquelicots se faneront
Au champ d'honneur.]

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Edge

Reeded

Comments

Proof Quality Medallion

Full poem In Flanders Fields: https://poets.org/poem/flanders-fields

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
2016 

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