War Prisoner Money and Medals

by Guido Kisch

A photographic reproduction, 60 millimeters in diameter, is found on Plate 15, no. 102.

French War-Prisoner Medal of 1916

J. Schulman, La Guerre Européenne 1914-1916. Catalogue LXXIII, p. 8 no. 52.

The description reads:

Pour nos prisonniers.

Médaille portative par O. Yencesse. Un poilus assis en attitude accablée. Légende POUR NOS-PRISONNIERS. Rev. Une colombe portant dans son bec un rameau d’olivier, en bas. 1916. Métal argenté mm. 26, coins arrondis. fl. 3.50.

German Camp Douglas Medal

[Anonymous], “German Prisoners’ Art School,” in The New York Times, Sunday, August 20, 1916, p. 12.

[Anonymous], “Some Interesting Medallic Issues,” The Numismatist, XXIX (March, 1916), p. 124, no. 4.

III. American War Prison Tokens and Medals

Civil War Prisons and Prisoners

Richard F. Hemmerlein, Prisons and Prisoners of the Civil War. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1934.