IDF Givati Infantry Brigade 54th Battalion Veterans Assembly Commemoration Medal

1962

caption:
The back / reverse shows the battalion's emblem with legend "Battalion 54 Givati".
 

  • IDF Givati Infantry Brigade 54th Battalion Veterans Assembly Commemoration Medal
  • IDF Givati Infantry Brigade 54th Battalion Veterans Assembly Commemoration Medal

Identifer: CJF-RFC2015309

Medium
Bronze

Collection
Israel Defense Forces

Description
The battalion's monument was erected 10 years earlier, in 1951 by the architect Gustav Meyerstein, in the area where the battalion fought in the War of Independence (1947-49), near Kibbutz Negba.
 
The three arrows at the peak of the monument symbolize the forces of the southern front in operation "Yoav", which breached the Egyptian closure on the Negev desert. On the monument is the legend "To the wanderer on your way down to the Negev - remember us".

 

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