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The War Commemorative Medal (German: Kriegserinnerungsmedaille) was a commemorative medal established in 1933 by the First Republic of Austria. The medal was awarded to Austria's military participants in World War I.
Virginia War Memorial; Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial; Washington Avenue Soldier's Monument and Triangle; Winged Victory (Lewis) World War I Memorial (Atlantic City, New Jersey) World War I Memorial (East Providence, Rhode Island) World War I Memorial (Elkton, Maryland) World War I Memorial (Norfolk, Connecticut) World War I Memorial (Salem ...
One of many German war memorials in Berlin to the dead of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, by Johannes Boese. On the eve of World War I there were no traditions of nationally commemorating mass casualties in war. France and Germany had been relatively recently involved in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871.
The Tannenberg Memorial (German: Tannenberg-Nationaldenkmal, from 1935: Reichsehrenmal-Tannenberg) [1] was a monument to the German soldiers of the Battle of Tannenberg and the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes during World War I, as well as the medieval Battle of Tannenberg of 1410.
Fliegen im Ersten Weltkrieg (Flying in World War I, 26 April to 20 October 2013), Zeltweg Air Base, Hangar 8; WoMen at War – k.u.k. Frauenbilder 1914-1918 (14 March 2013 to 29 September 2013) Alexander Pock – Militärmalerei als Beruf (Alexander Pock - Military painting as a profession, 12 September 2012 to 13 January 2013)
The memorial was designed by sculptor Karl Knappe and the architects Thomas Wechs and Eberhard Finsterwalder. Bernhard Bleeker created the monument of the fallen soldier and its base of red marble. The original marble statue was replaced by a bronze cast in 1972, made by Thomas Wimmer, and is now exhibited in the Bavarian Army museum in Ingolstadt.
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which incorporates 139 cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front of the First World War. On 20 September 2023, UNESCO designated the locations as a World Heritage site.
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