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1/2 Crown - Elizabeth II Battle of the Atlantic - Whether Your Land Remember or...
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II · DEI · GRA · REGINA GIBRALTAR · 2016 · HALF CROWN · |
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The Battle of the Atlantic ran from 1939 to 1945 — the longest continuous military campaign of the Second World War. Gibraltar's role was not peripheral: the Rock controlled the strait through which every Allied convoy entering the Mediterranean had to pass, and German U-boats operating from French Atlantic ports made that passage lethal. Over 3,500 Allied merchant and naval vessels were lost across the campaign's six years.
The title quotation draws from a Canadian poem by John McCrae's contemporary Wilfrid Campbell, though its specific attribution in this series has been contested by collectors since issue.