United Kingdom. An Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Newly Listed In heavy cast bronze

In heavy cast bronze

Fully recovered from his encounters with the dreaded Malaria

hand filed star

Provenance - Tammann collection

United Kingdom. An Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Newly Listed In heavy cast bronzeConstructed of magnetic iron, obverse illustrating the stricken liner sinking, her stern submerged to left while her ram shaped bow, laden with armaments, rises clear of the water (an image contradicting eyewitness accounts which stated that the ship went down bow first, the shape of the bow being a reference to the configuration of warships of the period and possibly a reminder that the British Admiralty had ordered merchant vessels to attempt to ram