Austria Hungary WWI Cap Badge Enver Pascha Dardanellen Wacht Dardanelles Watch Gallipoli Defense Weltkrieg World War 1916

Austro-Hungarian Empire: WW1 patriotic cap 
badge for the support of the Defense of the 
Dardanelles Straits.
Inscribed: "World War 1914 -1916" and  
"Dardanelles Watch" in German and Arabic 
letters.
With the portraits of Enver Pasha (Major General 
Ismail Enver Pasha, de facto Commander in Chief 
of the Ottoman Army), Sanders Pasha (General 
Otto Liman von Sanders, Commander of the 5th 
Ottoman Army, which was assigned the responsi-
bility of defending the Dardanelles Straits) and 
Schewad Pasha (General Cevat Cobanli, 
Commander of the Dardanelles Fortified Area 
Command and of the Ottoman  XIV Corps in 
Gallipoli).
The cap badge, although unmarked, was produced 
by G. Greinl in Vienna.
In nickel alloy.
The Gallipoli Campaign was a combined operation 
(a naval attack followed by an amphibious landing 
on the peninsula) of the Entente Powers (Britain 
and France), sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire 
by capturing the Ottoman capital of Constantinople 
and at the same time by taking control of the 
Dardanelles Straits that provided a supply route to 
Russia, the 3rd member of the Entente. 
The campaign ended as a major Ottoman victory 
as the naval attack was repelled and after 8 months 
of fighting, with many casualties on both sides, the 
land campaign was abandoned and the invasion 
force was withdrawn.
A scarce cap badge.

WW1 1914 1918

Item 100% original 

Condition as on the photos

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