Deployment of Red Cross medical dogs in the World War

Obverse

Relief portrait of a German Shepherd in profile, facing left.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
IM DIENSTE DES WELTKRIEGES 1914 – 1916
K. GOETZ

Translation:
In the Service of the World War 1914–1916
Karl Goetz

Engraver: Karl Goetz

Reverse

A German soldier (wounded, bandaged head) is being carried in a “fireman’s carry” by a comrade/stretcher-bearer, in the foreground, a German Shepherd Sanitätshund is walking alongside, looking up attentively at the wounded man.
In the background: faint silhouettes of barbed wire and soldiers in trenches.

Lettering:
ERST-
MALIGE
VERWEN
DVNG
DER
SANITÄTS
HVNDE

Unabridged legend: ERSTMALIGE VERWENDUNG DER SANITÄTS-HUNDE

Translation: First use of the sanitary dogs

Engraver: Karl Goetz

See also

• Dog or canid
• War

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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1914

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Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Künker Auction 261 Lot 5225	11 Mar 2015	AU	USD 484.60 (EUR 420.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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