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Germany, Otto von Weddigen, c.1915, an iron medal by R. Bachmann, bust in cap three-quarters left, rev. battleship being torpedoed, 50mm (Frankenhuis –; Wurz. 9245; BDM –); Death of Otto von Weddigen, 1915, a bronze medal by Mayer & Wilhelm, bust in cap three-quarters left, rev. auf euch ist verlass, crew of submarine train binoculars on a merchant ship, 54mm; Egon von Lerch, c.1915, an iron medal by R. Bachmann, bust three-quarters right, rev. submarine U-XII, 50mm; Deutsche U-Boote Weltkrieg, 1916, a cast bronze medal by B. Rungas, trident above waves, rev. shark attacking dolphin, 50mm [4]. Very fine and better (£40-60)

Kapitän-Leutnant Otto von Weddigen (1882-1915), commander of U-9 and U-29.
Egon von Lerch (†1915), commander of U-12, which sank off Venice with all hands, August 1915